School board meeting explodes into chaos over teacher's comments about the shooting of Charlie Kirk
A school board meeting in the US was thrown into chaos when social media figure Tim Bodnar showed up to shout about a teacher who had been placed on leave following alleged comments made after the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk was a conservative speaker in the US who was killed earlier this month while at an event at Utah Valley University.
Fatally shot in the neck, his death prompted an FBI investigation before 22-year-old Tyler Robinson handed himself over to the authorities and claimed he was the shooter.
Officials have announced that text messages sent by Robinson appear to indicate what he was saying and thinking in the aftermath of Kirk's death, while there have been several people who've either lost their jobs or been suspended for their reaction to the shooting.
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Among those are US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, who spoke out against the way the MAGA movement were trying to use the 31-year-old's death to 'score political points' by 'desperately trying to characterise' Tyler Robinson.
Elsewhere in the US, a school teacher is on leave for comments they allegedly made following the death of Charlie Kirk, and this man Tim Bodnar decided to show up to a school board meeting to make his feelings known.
He announced himself to the meeting as 'the truth slinger', then asked Jesus Christ to 'bring down the fire of God' before praying than then saying 'it is not ok to glee in the death of another human being'.
Bodnar then shouted 'I'd rather be in the woods right now burying my dog' but felt he had to attend the meeting 'and give y'all numbskulls a speech'.
He accused teachers of spreading 'communist propaganda' and while the man yelled about 'communist literature', the meeting chair called a recess, with most people at the meeting getting up and walking off for a break.
When they resumed ,Bodnar was ready to speak again, and was told to respect the rules by not yelling or addressing people by names.
He instead demanded that teachers be fired from their jobs and told the school board 'you couldn't give a crap' about it.
The man then went on to moan about 'this LGBTQIA+ nonsense' and complained about the teachers again.
When one of the board members defended his colleagues and told Bodnar he didn't even know what they were going to do because they hadn't reached a decision yet the man shouted back 'the world is moving on way too fast for you, old man' and another recess was called.
When they came back again, somebody else got up to speak and complain before police officers walked up and asked him to move on, at which point Bodnar got back up again with his phone out and egged the officers on to arrest the guy.
Attempts to get back on track were derailed again by an argument between Bodnar and the board member who'd defended his colleagues as the man told him to 'go get some more clicks on your little YouTube'.
The argument went on while footage from the meeting lost sound as Bodnar circled the table with his phone out and filming and then stood in front of the man, who tried to grab the phone out of the YouTuber's hand.
Police then separated the two, and the meeting was well and truly over.
Topics: Charlie Kirk, Politics, Social Media, US News
Joe Harker