A Western New York parent was dragged out of a school board meeting by security for not wearing a facemask. This despite a school board and other local officials being photographed maskless at an official event days prior.
A video circulated wherein Dave Calus, a parent attending a school board meeting in Webster, could be seen being grabbed by a security guard by his collar and pulled out of his chair as he sat quietly waiting his turn to speak at the meeting Tuesday.
In a Fox News report, Calus said the security guard asked him twice to wear on his mask, but he declined.
“You need to wear a mask,” the officer said a third time in the video. Calus again declined, and says that’s when the guard “put his hands on me.”
The parent was then pulled from his chair, pushed up against a wall, and escorted out of the meeting.
Calus said he walked into the meeting maskless and had been sitting quietly for 15 to 20 minutes before he was confronted by the guard.
Days earlier, several Webster School District officials who were present at the meeting posed in pictures on social media at a school board function without wearing masks, drawing ire from local parents.
In a picture tweeted by New York State Assembly member Jen Lunsford, a Democrat representing District 135, Webster School District Superintendent Brian Neenan, School Board members Jennifer Birdsong and Janice Richardson are seen smiling for a camera without masks covering their faces.
The picture immediately drew criticism from social media users, calling school officials a hypocrite.
Lunsford defended her actions on Twitter, claiming they were appropriate because she only took the mask off for 30 seconds.
