Do Not Comply: Torrance Residents Attend School Board Meeting Without Masks, Board Can't Stop Them

Sam Gallucci, a gubernatorial candidate, also showed up to show his support for the parents. Check out his comments here.

The Torrance school board moved their meeting to the Torrance High School auditorium, as they anticipated a larger audience. 

And indeed, we were a larger movement committed to pushing back on this.

All of us lined up outside of the Torrance High School main assembly hall, an Art Deco structure built in the 1920s. Two security staff stood outside, telling us all to put on our masks in order to enter the building.

All of us refused to do so. The security personnel asked us a second time to put on our masks, and we refused. One of them threatened us: "All right, then I will ask the police to remove you."

Instead of letting the school staffers bully us, we walked into the auditorium to find our seats:

Once we all got settled in, Dr. Keith Butler, the chief academic officer, reminded us that there is a health order (which is unlawful and unconstitutional) and that we needed to put our masks on. We told him that we are not going to comply with that unfounded, unlawful order.

He was not pleased! He stormed up the aisle to the front lobby of the auditorium to speak with the school security and Torrance Police Officers who were on duty at the time.

Yes, there were two police officers on site when the parents and I walked to the school auditorium. Check out our video walking up to the school board meeting here, and you will see two Torrance police officers on duty.

Here the school security and the chief academic officer are trying to collaborate with the two police officers on duty to remove law-abiding citizens:

NOTHING HAPPENED. The police did not follow the unlawful directives of the school board, because they were trying to push the unlawful health orders from the Los Angeles County Department of Health.

Barbara Ferrer is not our king, and neither is the LA County Board of Supervisors!

We won! We the People pushed back. We followed the encouragement of Dr. Rand Paul and we refused to comply with these ridiculous health directives!

It felt good to push back on this lawless tyranny!

Let's just say that the school board was not too happy with us that day! A number of times during the first few announcements, they tried to shame us and intimidate us. The presiding school board member, Betty Lieu, said that we were risking the school district entering into legal liability.

Board Member Betty Lieu was really frustrated!

We were not moved and we refused to be intimidated.

It was kind of funny to hear the school board members and senior administrative staff talk about the imposed mask mandates in the schools, when the audience in front of them knew the truth and acted on it: we refused to comply! It was so funny. Check out their preliminary remarks here.

Finally, public comment began, and every person who spoke out, whether at the dias or via Zoom, condemned the school board's decision to continue with the mask mandates.

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