Loudoun County Dad Arrested ‘Trespassing’ Local Public School Board Meeting Finds Not Guilty

A Loudoun County dad was arrested at a June 2021 school board meeting. This was used by the Biden administration as a justification for a politicized attack against concerned parents. He was not found guilty on Wednesday of trespassing.

Law enforcement arrested Jon Tigges at a Loudoun school board meeting on June 22, 2021, after he tried expressing concerns about the school district’s “moral decay.” A Virginia district judge found Tigges guilty In October 2021. Tigges was cleared by Loudoun Circuit Judge Douglas Fleming Jr.

Fleming found that Tigges had a First Amendment right of attendance at the heated meeting. He also determined that the superintendent who closed down the official gathering last year had no right to do so. “unlawful assembly.”

“My thanks to God for justice,” Tigges tweeted Wednesday afternoon.

Tigges was among the more than 250 people He had signed up for the Loudoun County Schools Board’s public comment section that summer night. He intended to voice opposition to the board’s new transgender policy proposal, which mandated that employees use students’ so-called “preferred pronouns” They are the most preferred toilets, regardless of what sex they have.

Tigges couldn’t speak until Brenda Sheridan (School Board Chair) called the meeting a halt. the now-recently fired The gathering was declared annexed by Superintendent Scott Ziegler “unlawful assembly.” Ziegler directed the hundreds of protestors at the government school district to leave the building or risk arrest.

Tigges refused permission to leave.

“I just felt led to realize that we could still speak,” Tigges told The Federalist Last year. “It’s a public forum, a public room. It had been scheduled until seven o’clock for people to speak. I stood up to encourage folks to stay and if they had something to say whether they were on the left or the right, didn’t matter. They’d be heard and we’d respect one another and do so and so people started doing that without any amplification at all and you could hear them fine because it was a peaceful assembly.”

Despite Tigges’ claim on the First Amendment, police officers handcuffed, arrested, and charged him with trespassing.

Two arrests made at Loudoun County’s Virginia school board meeting following it being declared an unlawful assembly. Parents were here to protest against critical-race theory and a refusal to leave. #CriticalRaceTheory pic.twitter.com/dsZDrqJ0Gp

— Gabriella Borter (@gabriellaborter) June 22, 2021

Tigges’ arrest in June of 2021 was used By the National School Boards Association, in collusion avec the Biden White House to justify the smearing parents concerned as “domestic terrorists” Federal law enforcement officials required that the defendant be punished.

The NSBA sent its famous complaint letter in September 2021. secretly solicited Miguel Cardona Education Secretary to the Department of Justice. This provoked a politicized attack against parents who spoke out against corrupt school boards.

“Despite this victory, I have serious concerns about where we are as a country