Sixteen-year-old Grace Smith, a junior at Laramie High School in Wyoming, was arrested and hauled off-campus for refusing to comply with the school’s mask mandate.
Police even put the school on lockdown for 90 minutes.
Smith had previously served suspensions for refusing to comply with the district’s mandate which forces everyone in campus building to have their face covered.
The Casper Star-Tribune newspaper in Wyoming reports:
“Smith said she believes the mandate violates her constitutional rights and that she won’t wear a mask. As a result, she has been warned by LHS administration and faces two days of disciplinary suspension and a misdemeanor trespassing citation for every time she’s in the building and declines to mask up.
The first time she was suspended, “I just left,” Smith said. “Then, after talking with our attorney, we decided to push it, so on Tuesday I didn’t (leave) and took the citation for $500 and then left.”
By not leaving, she was ticketed by the Laramie Police Department for trespassing. After serving a two-day suspension, she returned Thursday and again was ticketed for trespassing.
When she still refused to leave the school, saying she has a right to be there, she was arrested. A pair of LPD officers had Smith put her hands in front of her, placed her in handcuffs and transported her to the police station in downtown Laramie, where Smith was released. The episode was captured on video by Smith on her phone and shows the interactions were calm and respectful on all sides.”
Smith tells the newspaper she’s refusing to adhere to the mask mandate because:
“…I’m growing up in a country where I’m supposed to have my God-given rights to protect, and they’re being taken away. Everybody has the freedom to wear a mask if they choose, but I believe everybody also has the right to not wear a mask if they choose.”
If Smith continues to defy the mask mandate, the school could ultimately expel her.
Think about what is going on here: a 16-year-old student was just handcuffed, arrested & hauled off to the police station because she refused to engage in the theatrics of putting an ineffective piece of cloth over her face. Mind blowing.