Police are probing a doable hate crime after a gaggle of males dressed just like the far-right group Proud Boys disrupted a drag queen story hour for preschool kids at a San Francisco Bay Space public library.
Lt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Workplace stated deputies responded Saturday afternoon after 5 males carrying the Proud Boys’ black-and-yellow colours crashed the Delight Month occasion at San Lorenzo Library.
Nobody was injured or arrested, The Related Press reported.
“It seems the group of males could also be affiliated with the Proud Boys group,” Lt. Kelly stated Sunday, including that deputies will probably be stationed at future drag queen story hours “to take care of any disruptors.”
Media outlet KQED, which first reported the story, stated the boys — certainly one of whom wore a shirt with the slogan “kill your native pedophile” emblazoned over a gun — known as drag queen Panda Dulce a “tranny” and “pedophile” as they entered the library.
KQED reported that Mr. Dulce, who was singing a welcome track to the toddlers when the boys arrived, hid in an workplace with a safety guard till they left.
“I didn’t know in the event that they have been armed. I used to be solely conscious about the truth that neither myself nor any of the opposite librarians have been,” Mr. Dulce advised KQED.
The drag queen added in an Instagram put up that the boys “completely freaked out the youngsters” and “tried to escalate to violence.”
Conservatives have stated such story hours — which characteristic males wearing ladies’s clothes studying kids’s tales — encourage gender confusion amongst kids at an impressionable age.
• This story relies partially on wire service reviews.
