CONSEQUENCES

Anti-Maskers Who Stormed Utah School Meeting Are Charged

Eleven were hit with misdemeanors for the rowdy protest against mask requirements that the school board had nothing to do with.

Opponents of critical race theory who are planning on protesting at a Utah school board meeting on Tuesday night—even though it’s not even being taught in the state—should probably mind their manners. Anti-maskers who stormed a meeting of the Granite school board in May, accosting board members and shouting obscenities, have now been hit with a misdemeanor criminal charge. Eleven people—most of whom lived outside the Granite school district where they made a ruckus—could theoretically face jail time if convicted, The Salt Lake Tribune reports; a 12th person is still being sought. Those protesters were misdirecting their anger, too: Mask requirements were set by the state, not the school board.