03-02-2023, 05:33 PM
davemchine wrote:
There was a claim that Attorney General Merrick Garland asked Biden to categorize parent protests on school grounds as terrorism. Some articles say it happened. Other articles say it didn't happen.
From what I read this news story came out of parents protesting the content of sex education classes and also some history regarding racial issues. Trying to understand all of the problems that pop up under this umbrella is a little bit like trying to untangle spaghetti.
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/04/attorn...errorists/
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he couldn’t even “imagine a circumstance” where “parents complaining” at a school board meeting would be “labeled as domestic terrorism.” Yet, several Republicans have continued to falsely claim Garland called such parents “terrorists.”
The nugget of truth behind the political spin is that a letter from the National School Boards Association to Garland last fall argued some violent threats against school officials “could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism” that would warrant the intervention of federal law enforcement. In his response, Garland directed his agency to review strategies to address violent threats and harassment against school boards, but he didn’t use the NSBA’s “terrorism” language, for which the group later apologized.