A cop’s decision to sport a body camera and search a Massachusetts middle school for a book has raised serious concerns among civil liberties experts, a new report shows.
The Berkshire Eagle reported Wednesday on mounting fears after the Great Barrington plainclothes police officer who entered an eighth grade classroom at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School.
“Police going into schools and searching for books is the sort of thing you hear about in communist China and Russia," Ruth A. Bourquin, senior and managing attorney for the ACLU of Massachusetts, told the local news outlet. "What are we doing?”
For their part, police say they were obligated to investigate a complaint about the book “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe, a memoir about gender identity that contains sexually explicit illustrations and language, the report notes.
Oh my fuckin’ LORD no, NO!! Not “GENDER QUEER!” OH MY GOD, some kid might actually SEE THAT!!! (Screaming as loud as possible). This is a national emergency of biblical proportions!! Get the stones ready! Won’t someone please think of the children!!! They’re so much better off not knowing about the existence of queer people, of others who are different. They just don’t know how lucky they are to have good christian values to lock their brains into braces and blind their eyes for their own good!!!