People have been attacked in bathrooms prior and will in the future. The only difference now is that people can blame scary “bathroom accommodation” policies for the attacks.
Not making excuses for sheriffs deputies but the father could have obeyed their orders and left. When you resist bad things happen. When you fight worse things happen. What happened to his daughter is despicable and the perpetrator should be punished. But Dad lost his composure, he could have gone outside asked to see the sheriff and gotten advice as to how to proceed with his demands for accountability especially in light of the facts surrounding the school board members denial of their knowledge in the case and school administrators covering up not one but two rapes? These people are the ones who should be hauled off to the hoosegow. Conspiring to cover up rapes of minors in school bathrooms? What the ■■■■■
I don’t think that is true. From his own account he didn’t go to the meeting to speak to anyone, but then got in to an argument with another person at the meeting who questioned the legitimacy of the attack. He, rightfully, got angry.
“I went at the spur of the moment after I finished up a work job down the street, to go see the circus I’ve been seeing on the news. We weren’t going to protest or anything,” Smith said.
Smith said the student who assaulted his daughter is male and identifies as gender-fluid. And he said he was provoked during a meeting by a woman he knew personally, who made comments about his daughter, discounting the alleged assault. Deputies attempted to restrain Smith, and he was dragged to the floor.
“Public health” or not torey, it is still intolerance. I can make the same argument for Xi in bathrooms and “public safety”. Or homosexual males and “public health”.
Practically any intolerance can be rationalized by “public”.
They are being excluded from sharing social, political, or professional rights due to their circumstance. And in some cases denied their livelihood.