Health care workers leaving a school board meeting in Franklin, Tennessee were harassed on Tuesday by parents after that called for elementary school students to wear masks.
Video shows a group of anti-mask parents surrounding the health care workers chanting “we will not comply.” One woman can be heard yelling “take that mask off!”
Later in the video a man confronted the driver of the car, pointing his fingers in the driver’s face saying: “We know who you are. You can leave freely, but we will find you,” Another man tells the driver “you will never be allowed in public again.”
The incident occurred after the Williamson County Schools (WCS) Board of Education voted to institute a mask mandate on Tuesday for students and faculty members in their district, according to the Tennessean.
The tense four-hour long meeting was repeatedly disrupted by anti-mask parents, some holding homemade signs and billboards decrying masks.
Jason Golden, WCS Superintendent recommended the board pass the mask policy since elementary age students are not eligible to be vaccinated. Masks will remain optional at middle and high schools, where most students are age 12 or above.
The new mandate will go into effect Thursday with the school board returning to vote to extend the measure on Sept 20., the Tennessean noted.
