High School Student Arrested for Refusing to Adhere to Mask Mandate

Townhall.com ^ | 10 October A.D. 2021 | Landon Mott

[lightman]

A 16-year-old Wyoming high school student was arrested for refusing to wear a mask, resulting in an hour-long school lockdown.

Grace Smith, a Laramie High School student, said in an interview with Wyoming Sen. Anthony Bouchard about her arrest that she had received three separate two-day suspensions. She was also allegedly fined $1,000 for trespassing after she refused to leave the school's premises.

"It makes me angry," Smith said. "It makes me feel unwanted by the school system. It makes me stressed out that I have to fight this battle as a 16-year-old. Right now, I should be playing sports and having fun. And instead, I’m fighting for the rights that were supposed to be won hundreds of years ago."

Bouchard applauded Smith for "standing against Covid Tyranny" and set up a fundraiser on GiveSendGo to help her with "the legal cost of defending her civil liberties and the civil liberties of other students in Wyoming who are enduring the same unlawful treatment." The campaign has raised more than $32,000 as of Sunday afternoon.

"You're what really everybody has to do, and I believe that," Bouchard told Smith in the interview. "I've seen from the beginning of this, everything has been about following orders, it's all about compliance, but I don't really see a real direction we're going in other than making people fit into a mold."

Laramie High School's mask mandate is in place until Oct. 15, at which time school officials will decide if it will be extended.

[lightman]

Embedded Tweet:

🇺🇸Anthony Bouchard for Congress Against Cheney @AnthonyBouchard

Interview with Grace, the 16 yr. old Honors student arrested at Laramie High School yesterday because she took a stand against wearing masks. This girl is a badass standing against Covid Tyranny.

#StandWithGrace #tyranny @NeilWMcCabe @OANN

[lightman]

"I've seen from the beginning of this, everything has been about following orders, it's all about compliance,

BINGO!

It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the science”:

Masks are:

1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!

[phoneman08]

Wyoming? Is there no place the Communists haven’t infiltrated?

[taxcontrol]

Title is incorrect. She was arrested for criminal trespass. When she refused to wear the mask, school authorities told her to leave. When she refused to leave, after being notified by the LEO that should would be arrested if she did not leave, she was arrested for the trespass.

[lightman]

Remember “The Laramie Project”?

[CJ Wolf]

Well it started with the refusal to wear the mask. They stepped through the process step by step to get the girl arrested and peacefully removed.

[BobL]

“Wyoming? Is there no place the Communists haven’t infiltrated?”

Yea, Wyoming is lost. So is most of Texas...in fact, all of Texas except the ONE SCHOOL that my kids go to. The teachers and administrators at that one school just LOVE AMERICA*.

*of course I have to claim that...otherwise I’d be abusing my kids by sending them to a typical public school

[SoConPubbie]

Title is incorrect. She was arrested for criminal trespass. When she refused to wear the mask, school authorities told her to leave. When she refused to leave, after being notified by the LEO that should would be arrested if she did not leave, she was arrested for the trespass.

And that makes what happened to her correct how?

[BenLurkin]

Fauci says masks are ineffective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBFs4o0VYk

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Title is incorrect. She was arrested for criminal trespass. When she refused to wear the mask, school authorities told her to leave. When she refused to leave, after being notified by the LEO that should would be arrested if she did not leave, she was arrested for the trespass.

Thanks for clearing that up, Comrade.

[crz]

Its Laramie. If that aint the asshole of the world, then it is awful close.

Spend a few months there. But, met a good barber there who is right in line with all of our thinking. Its the dam college that is the problem. When I was there, they had a big blowup going on with a black college basketball player who got into trouble.

[lightman]

Different states, different rules.

My County's DA has instructed law enforcement to take a hands-off approach to school mask violations UNLESS they escalate into violence:

Law enforcement may file charges for other applicable criminal violations surrounding these callouts, such as those found in the Crimes Code, Vehicle Code, or drug laws. Specifically, any harassing, threatening, or other violent behaviors in any form will not be toleratedat any time, and will be fully prosecuted by this office

Bold in original.

"Defiant trespass" and "criminal trespass" are non-violent offenses, at least in Pennsylvania.

[rktman]

Well done young lady. She should home school if possible.

[lightman]

ARTH ping.

[ProfessorGoldiloxx]

You have to applaud a kid for doing what so many adults are incapable of. But their excuse is being too busy, like playing fantasy football this weekend but while they did that some in the Middle East were playing fantasy country. I saw an article on that, “Conference considers which Jews ‘should and should not be killed’”, and you can give that a look at WND. If push comes to shove, Israel can shove with nukes and that is why Iran wants them too. I can honestly say I still haven’t worn a mask even once, and I won’t if I have anything to say about it. Bravo Grace Smith, you are the Rosa Parks of schools.

[ProfessorGoldiloxx]

I don’t have a meme, just a long track record of posting masks are mini burqas and a visible sign of submission to the communist left who have aligned with islam.

[metmom]

Thanks for the ping.

I think I pinged another article out about this event.

[ProfessorGoldiloxx]

She wasn’t ‘criminally trespassing’[SIC] until she refused to wear a mask and since cloth isn’t magical and this is still a free country she had that right. Now she is over $30K richer for it too.

[cgbg]

She was arrested for criminal trespass.

Good point--the Jews were guilty of criminal trespass in der fuhrer's Germany--they were supposed to be on the trains to the camps.

How dare they trespass?

[caww]

Sorry but I have issue with school kids being interviewed etc. too many love the attention and since she had several warnings it was easy to see where she was headed.

There're otherwise parents handling this which is where it belongs.