BREAKING NEWS: At least one person is injured as violence breaks out between parents and LGBTQ supporters at LA elementary school where Pride flag was burned
At least one person has reportedly been injured after violence broke out between parents outside an elementary school in Los Angeles.
Parents were seen clashing against LGBTQ protesters outside Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood after an ongoing debate regarding events celebrating Pride month.
The scene became frantic after parents on both side of the issue faced off as police looked on.
Aerial footage showed multiple punches been thrown.
According to a Twitter user at the scene, one person was unresponsive following a fight.
At least one person has been injured after violence broke out between parents outside an elementary school in Los Angeles
The scene became frantic after parents on both side of the issue faced off as police looked on
The clash follows an ongoing debate regarding events celebrating Pride month at the school
Footage posted by the Twitter user shows a man lying on the ground.
‘He has to suffer!’ a protester with a ‘Leave our Kids Alone’ shirt is heard saying.
Officers were on the scene to ‘facilitate a peaceful and lawful exercise of constitutional rights,’ the LAPD said on Twitter.
The clash comes after the school announced an event celebrating Pride month.
Parents set up an Instagram account on May 16 called ‘saticoyelementaryparents’ to protest against the school’s upcoming Pride assembly where teachers read a Mary Hoffman book titled ‘The Great Big Book of Families’.
It talks about diversity and ‘all kinds of families’ including those with LGBTQ+ parents.
And just three days later, parents took their children out of a class which was being taught by a transgender substitute teacher, three school sources said.
After the Instagram account was created, an intruder broke into school and set the flag on fire.
A full-time teacher, who is a transgender man, discovered its remains in a plant pot which was also broken.
Anger has escalated among the school community due to an upcoming Pride assembly and parents have scheduled a protest against the ‘inappropriate’ event on Friday.
Protests outside at Saticoy Elementary School, Los Angeles where parents have shown up to speak out against a pride event on campus. pic.twitter.com/4nejrTcXdG
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The transgender teacher was taken out of Saticoy Elementary School for his own safety, a source who wanted to remain anonymous said.
His image was taken down from the school’s website but an image of the teacher before and after his transition was posted on Instagram pages used by parents against the Pride assembly.
‘Here’s the special ed/3rd grade trans teacher (first pic as female, later male) at Saticoy Elementary who has made it a point to send message to [Armenian] kids about [Pride],’ the post read.
