Armed Agents in Texas School District Arrest Concerned Parents in Their Own Homes

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Armed Agents in Texas School District Arrest Concerned Parents in Their Own Homes

Breccan F. Thies 26 Nov 2021

The Round Rock Independent School District (RRISD) in Texas is using its own armed agents to arrest parents who speak out against the school board’s policies, according to Christopher Rufo in the City Journal.

Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said:

The battle lines are clear: on one side, the Biden administration, public school bureaucrats, and their armed agents; on the other, parents and families who oppose school closures, mask mandates, critical race theory and corruption. Public school officials have demonstrated a willingness to use police power to silence and intimidate their opponents.

Two fathers, Jeremy Story and Dustin Clark, had spoken out against the school board’s “alleged corruption and school officials’ hostility toward parents.” In August, while “produc[ing] evidence that the board had covered up an alleged assault by the superintendent, Hafedh Azaiez, against a mistress,” Story, a minister, was cut off midsentence as Azaiez ordered armed officers to remove him from the premises, according to Chronicles Magazine.


Jeremy Story forcibly removed from RRISD school board meeting by police.

At issue in the next meeting was the district’s mask mandate. For this, Clark, a retired Army captain, and other parents sought to speak, but instead, the school board “locked the majority of parents out of the room, preventing them from speaking.” According to Rufo, while the parents were asking the school board to open the room for public comment on a major policy item, “school board president Amy Weir directed officers to remove Clark from school property.”

“As he was dragged out by two officers, Clark shouted to the audience: ‘It’s an open meeting! Shame on you. Communist! Communist! Let the public in!'” Rufo explained.

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[mountaineer]

Incredible. And we thought there was some sanity in Texas.

[sneakypete]

It was just a matter of time.

HEY! Come to think of it,didn't there used to be an organization called "The American Civil Liberties Union"?

Whatever happened to them?

[libertybele]

Incredible. And we thought there was some sanity in Texas.

This is happening in TX ... we are so royally screwed. 

[Ghost Bear]

Round Rock is a suburb of Austin. The effluence leaking out of Austin has already infected it.

[libertybele]

Round Rock is a suburb of Austin. The effluence leaking out of Austin has already infected it.

How much longer before it continues to fester and spread into other parts of TX, especially with all the ILLEGALS pouring in?

[Ghost Bear]

How much longer before it continues to fester and spread into other parts of TX, especially with all the ILLEGALS pouring in?

The illegals aren't as much of a problem as the people moving here from California and other leftist states.

[Free Vulcan]

How exactly do they have jurisdiction off school grounds?

[Elderberry]

https://www.city-journal.org/public-school-boards-against-parents

Enemies of the School Board

Parents in some school districts find their input suppressed—and their dissent criminalized.

Christopher F. Rufo
November 17, 2021 Education
The Social Order
Texas

At the next meeting, in September, with the district’s controversial mask mandate on the agenda, the school board locked the majority of parents out of the room, preventing them from speaking. Clark and other frustrated parents asked the board to open the nearly empty room to the public. Instead, school board president Amy Weir directed officers to remove Clark from school property. As he was dragged out by two officers, Clark shouted to the audience: “It’s an open meeting! Shame on you. Communist! Communist! Let the public in!”

A few days later, the school district, in coordination with law enforcement, sent police officers to the homes of both men, arrested them, and put them in jail on charges of “disorderly conduct with intent to disrupt a meeting.” Families and supporters of Story and Clark held an all-night protest outside the jail, until the men were released the following morning. They are now raising funds for their legal defense.

The school board was able to do this because the Round Rock Independent School District has its own police force, with a three-layer chain of command, patrol units, school resource officers, a detective, and a K-9 unit. The department serves under the authority of the board and, through coordination with other agencies, apparently has the power to order the arrest of citizens in their homes. For many parents, the school board is sending a message: if you speak out against us, we will turn you into criminals. When reached for comment, the school district’s police department confirmed that it initiated the investigation and that “one board member requested details from the RRISD Police” prior to the criminal referral.

[LegalAmerican]

Incredible. And we thought there was some sanity in Texas.

Yes, what is going on in Texas? 

[sneakypete]

How exactly do they have jurisdiction off school grounds?

@Free Vulcan

I was wondering the same thing. Somebody needs to be whispering in the local sheriff's ear.

[HoustonSam]

How exactly do they have jurisdiction off school grounds?

This sounds like some police who need to be defunded.

[Kamaji]

How exactly do they have jurisdiction off school grounds?

Most likely their jurisdiction covers the entire school district, not simply school grounds.

[Hoodat]

How exactly do they have jurisdiction off school grounds?

They don't.  Hence the cooperation with other law enforcement agencies.  I doubt the school board has it's own jail either.

[sneakypete]

The more I think about this,the more I feel like posting things that shouldn't be posted.

[Hoodat]

State of Texas - Open Meetings Act:  https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/SOTWDocs/GV/htm/GV.551.htm