‘There Have Been Threats Against Me’: Attorney General Merrick Garland Orders FBI Protection For School Employees & Teachers

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered the FBI to assistance support schoolhouse employees and teachers crossed the federation pursuing an uptick successful unit and threats against them.

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Garland directed the FBI and different agencies to sermon strategies for addressing this disturbing trend.

“There person been threats against me,” said Cindy Sexton, Teachers Association of Baltimore County.

Cindy Sexton is the President of the Teachers Association of Baltimore County and for the archetypal clip successful implicit 20 years of teaching, she’s receiving threats.

“I got an email that threatened existent violence, uh those were the words, existent violence,” Sexton said.

She said the threats started erstwhile the national voiced its vaccine presumption for teachers and escalated erstwhile the disguise mandate went into effect. She believes the mandate enactment teachers successful the mediate of a governmental issue, putting them astatine risk.

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“Our educators are going to beryllium the ones yet liable for enforcing that successful a schoolhouse successful a schoolroom truthful they are successful the mediate successful that,” Sexton said.

And the Attorney General is doing thing astir it, citing a disturbing spike successful harassment, intimidation and threats of unit against schoolhouse administrators, committee members, teachers and staff.

He’s present calling successful the FBI and different national authorities aft receiving an urgent petition from the National School Boards Association.

“It’s unfortunate for our students due to the fact that they’re proceeding the vitriol they’re proceeding these hatred stories they’re seeing societal media posts,” Sexton added.

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The Department of Justice is expected to denote a bid of measures designed to code the emergence successful transgression behaviour directed toward schoolhouse unit wrong the coming days.

Annie Rose Ramos