Thread by @lukerosiak

As Loudoun schools sought to pass a controversial transgender policy in June, it concealed that a 9th-grade girl was allegedly raped by a "gender fluid" student in a school bathroom just 3 weeks prior, The Daily Wire has learned.

dailywire.com/news/loudoun-c…

In June, LCPS lectured the public for worrying about a "red herring," saying the district had 0 bathroom assaults on record. It quietly transferred the boy charged in the May 28 assault to a new school.

October 6, he was arrested for a new sex assault inside a classroom there.

The father of the victim is a man you've seen: The bald man being dragged by the police.

The county's top elected prosecutor personally tried to put him in jail. He was issued a no-trespassing order keeping him from telling his story at the meeting where the trans policy passed.

The National School Board Association included Scott Smith in its list used to deem parents "domestic terrorists."

But “if someone would have sat and listened for thirty seconds to what Scott had to say, they would have been mortified and heartbroken,” his attorney said.

The story is behind a paywall because this story is so shocking that it could only be told through a 5,000 word long, resource-intensive magazine-style piece, but I think it's worth subscribing to @realDailyWire for. Here is more of the top of the story.

Scott was arrested after an argument with a member of the Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun Facebook group (which threatened to "hack" and "expose" parents who questioned school policies) who approached him at the meeting. Chardonnay Antifa was apparently not only behind keyboards.

Smith's image traveled around the world, a two-dimensional character. Perhaps we've divided into two camps, viewing the other side as cartoon villains, and talking too loud to listen. Would this situation have been helped with a "restorative justice" talk circle?

The 2D cartoon villain archetype on the hard left is that CRT is not even in schools, and angry parents are just misled by TV

I asked the leftist activist who was arguing w/ Smith when he was arrested if his daughter's story daughter gave her a more nuanced understanding of him

Instead the woman gave me an impossible-to-believe response further promoting the 2D view. She claims she said hi to Smith's wife, who then purportedly responded with a confession that she knows CRT "isn't real," but came to the meeting to stir up others by tricking them about it

I thought this might be an opportunity for both sides to understand each other. It did not happen. Instead, we just have pain, fear and strife in Loudoun--the richest county in the country, with no real social problems--as courts and schools are converted to political machines