Jaw-Dropping Brawl Breaks Out Over Opposition to School LGBTQ+ Pride Curriculum
Cameras recorded a jaw-dropping brawl that broke out between groups of protesters and counter-protesters over a school LGBTQ+ Pride curriculum.
On Wednesday morning’s edition of NewsNation’s Morning In America, co-anchor Nick Smith reported three people were arrested in the clash outside a Glendale Unified School District meeting where the board was voting on making June pride month and approving an LGBTQ+-inclusive curriculum:
NICK SMITH: You can see that that crowd at one point outnumbered the number of law enforcement officers there. At least three people were arrested following those altercations outside Los Angeles while the fighting for school board members to pause their hearing. They unanimously approved recognizing June as Pride Month, which it has done for the last four years. This video shows some of the 500 or so people who came out on both sides of the issue. You can see how the two sides are mostly separated by barriers with officers standing between them. In the background, you can see a group of people waiting to get in so they could speak during the public comments. It’s not clear what led up to this confrontation on a nearby street where you can see one side rush, the other, followed by fighting. Police say most demonstrators were peaceful, with only a small group acting dangerously. Now officers declared an unlawful assembly, ordering everyone to leave the area. Advocates point out some of the curriculum is required by state law and highlights lessons on diversity and contributions of LGBTQ+ leaders. But other parents say they want more transparency and more options to opt out.
TEACHER: No one’s handing us a curriculum and saying you have to teach kids to be gay. Like, I don’t I don’t even understand. I don’t think they know what they’re talking about. And we don’t have any prescribed LGBTQ+ curriculum. We just don’t leave gay people out of the equation.
PROTESTER: We’re talking about children. We’re not ready for such choices. It confuses them. And ultimately, these are things that parents should decide.
Social media users shared videos of the clash, which appear to show the anti-LGBTQ protesters rushing the Pride supporters:
Details of the curriculum in question are available here.
Watch above via NewsNation’s Morning In America.
