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Videos show pro-Palestinian protesters storming school board meeting in Ontario
'There were trustees who were terrified. Some sitting there frozen. Trustees were saying this isn’t right'
A crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators broke up a school board meeting in Ontario’s Peel region, Wednesday, drowning out elected trustees with chanting, and later stormed past security into a locked room where trustees had retreated to reconvene the meeting.
“Somebody was just trying to let this young student trustee out to go to the bathroom, they pushed down the security guard and they grabbed the door,” said David Green, chair of the Peel District School Board.
“They stormed the room.
“The staff that was standing up there got knocked down, and another was pushed down, trampled all over. One lady she just came — it was like at a wrestling match — she ran past everybody and came straight for me.
“It was horrible,” Green said in an interview.
“There were trustees who were terrified. Some sitting there frozen. Trustees were saying this isn’t right, they were afraid.
“In my 21 years as a trustee, we’ve had challenging situations in our boardroom but we’ve never had anything like this, when staff and trustees are put in a place where they are fearful to the point where people are assaulted.”
Green said he was told people came to the building and told the crowd “they’re in that room, bang it down, kick it down if you have to.”
The disturbance erupted at the regularly scheduled board meeting of trustees for the Peel District School Board, in its headquarters in Mississauga, west of Toronto.
A social media account in the days before the meeting urged “students, parents and concerned community members” to attend the meeting, in a “call to action” post asking people to “bring your flags, keffiyehs, and signs.”
The large, multi-tiered public gallery at the board hall filled with people before the meeting began. Some held Palestinian flags and signs.
Most of the meeting was broadcast live online by the board, but that feed stopped when the meeting fell into chaos.
The meeting started normally, with Green calling it to order and thanking the gallery for its patience for starting late.
Green asked people to stand for an Indigenous land acknowledgement and the playing of Canada’s national anthem.
Most people in the public gallery stood for the land acknowledge but sat down when the national anthem began, the meeting video shows.
Their demands included that Peel District School Board issue statements declaring they stand with Palestinians and want an end to genocide
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