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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnti-Maskers Try To Pull A January 6 On School Board, Swear Selves In As Replacements
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Last week, a ragtag group of people who don't even have children in California's Poway Unified School District invaded a closed school board meeting, as part of a rally organized by dark money-funded astroturf group "Let Them Breathe," and refused to leave. Police declined to force them out and instead suggested the school board adjourn the meeting instead. You know, for their own safety.
In slightly more normal times that might have been where it ended. Oh, no.
The anti-maskers decided ending the meeting meant school board members had vacated their seats, so they "brought in a constitutionalist" to verify this meant they could elect a new board "by quorum," then made themselves the new school board, with a swearing-in ceremony and everything. Tragically, no sashes or crowns were involved.
The trespassers then told the actual school board members in the building that they were trespassing and would have to leave, saying that they had just lost their jobs.
In the video, you can see proud "new school board president" Derek Greco talking about how the whole thing went down:
GRECO: Hey, good evening everybody, had a pretty interesting night here at the Poway Unified School District Board Meeting, of which they were only allowing select people that they chose to enter the meeting tonight, which is not legit or legal, you can't just decide who's allowed in and who's not.
So we entered the building peacefully, we refused to leave, and we demanded accountability from the Poway Unified School District Board.
And the Board vacated their seats tonight. We then brought in a constitutionalist, who, uh, we held a quorum, and we voted in a new Board. You are looking at the new President of the Poway Unified School District apparently.
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Anti-Maskers Try To Pull A January 6 On School Board, Swear Selves In As Replacements (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2021
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TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)1. The only people that should be fired...
Are the police, who once again refused to do their jobs when it comes to holding right-wing nut jobs accountable.
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Shrike47
(6,913 posts)2. I'm getting very tired of police inaction in situations where they clearly should be acting.
Nevilledog
(50,659 posts)4. I'm hoping a bunch get fired over vaccine refusal.
rurallib
(62,342 posts)5. every time people pull this shit and suffer no consequences
it will just spawn more and more such actions. Add in the fact that in many jurisdictions police or sheriffs units are refusing to enforce the law really emboldens such groups.
Republicans = lawlessness.
NCDem47
(2,236 posts)6. It's the old, "Well...what are you going to do about it?"
And? Nothing happens. So, they just keep pushing boundaries.
Nevilledog
(50,659 posts)7. It emboldens them.
Next time they'll bring weapons or physically assault people.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)9. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾
PortTack
(32,605 posts)8. It seems with no help from the police, the school board did the right thing, adjourn and ignore
The idiots that think they now are in control.....No they are not