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🪡 With that, the board takes a break. The controversial items have been completed on the agenda.

Thanks for joining us tonight - there will be another meeting soon for the second reading of the policy.

🪡 They continue to discuss additional edits to Leandra’s resolution. People are continuing to slowly clear out.

Andy Falco loudly calls out “Political Suicide for Marilyn Anderson” a while before the modified resolution passes.

🪡 Quintero, Buck, and Anderson agree to change the resolution to say the district supports law enforcement that works in partnership with PYLUSD schools.

Frazier and Blades continue to push back, insisting that the resolution should include federal law enforcement, before relenting.

🪡 Anderson speaks longer about more impactful ways the district could support law enforcement if wanted.

Blades says, “well those could be good if we wanted a Law Enforcement Appreciation Resolution but that’s different.”

The resolution they’re discussing is called “In Support of Law Enforcement”.

🪡 A number of the MAGA folks (not an assumption, they’re wearing MAGA attire) who were there support Blades get up and walk out, including the single speaker who spoke in support of the Trump admin investigation into the district’s lack of anti-trans policies.

“We have teachers on social media saying they’ll oppose law enforcement,” says Blades.

Several people shout out comments about how Blades opposed law enforcement at the Capitol on January 6th. Again, confirmed, she’s a proud J6er.

Anderson reminds Blades that her husband is a retired 30-yr cop.

🪡 Frazier and Blades push harder on her resolution, complaining that Quintero removed “federal and state” from the resolution, leaving only local.

Quintero pushes back, highlighting that this is not a board policy, but a resolution and so should focus on local.

🪡 A Trump supporter gets up to leave, upset that so many in the crowd were saying things they didn’t agree with.

She points at the crowd and speaks as she leaves, talking about politics not belonging in the classroom.

The board discussion continues.

🪡 Blades says “There’s a teacher in the district calling ICE murderers”.

The cry goes up, “They are!”

Followed by, “YOU ARE!”

Yes, Leandra Blades murdered an unarmed man as a cop and got away with it. She was Leandra Weisenburger at the time.

🪡 Blades talks about how teachers are handing out “anti-ICE cards”. Trustee Quintero interrupts to correct her, saying, “those are constitutional rights cards.”

She gets wild applause.

🪡 The board votes to pass the standard resolution for a second reading at the next meeting. This isn’t Leandra’s policy.

This is NOT passing the resolution as policy, it’s normal procedure for it to be returned to a secondary reading where it will be voted on next week.

We now move to hers.

🪡 Trustee Marilyn Anderson expresses to Blades that she’s disregarding the real fear that the community is sharing with the board.

Blades turns and says “do you oppose ICE, Marilyn?”

Anderson, a centrist, pauses, and says, “Don’t do this. This is about the very real fear that our families face.”

🪡 Frazier again suggests, like Blades, that the community is misinformed.

Trustee Quintero says dryly, “Well I think the community has read it.”

🪡 Trustee Frazier turns again to the attorney, saying “so, armies of attorneys worked on this (resolution)?”

The attorney chuckles and says, “Well, five attorneys.”

Frazier is in support of this resolution.

🪡 People begin to walk out. Blades begin to lie again about the student who was detained by ICE.

Outside the crowd begins again, “Shut her up! Shut her up!” to ripples of laughter inside.

🪡 Blades then go on to refer to kidnappings as a form of crime that require law enforcement response, and this pushes people over the edge.

“ICE IS KIDNAPPING PEOPLE!” is the cry that goes up. Trustee Buck asks the room to settle, she doesn’t want to have to clear the room. Folks start walking out.

🪡 Blades continues to talk about how faculty need to allow ICE to do their job.

She claims that this is the same as law enforcement coming onto school campuses to respond to bomb threats. “Would you have stopped them to ask them if they had a warrant?”

🪡 A CBSLA reporter stands behind us nodding and “mhmm”ing as Leandra and Trustee Frazier talks about how teachers should not impede law enforcement.

Reminder that CBS is now ran by a Trump supporter.

🪡 “It’s a felony to impede law enforcement,” Leandra says.

The room begins to rumble, and an older white man angrily stands up to yell at her, before being escorted out.

Anger is bubbling in the room as the other Trustees ask questions.

🪡 A chant begins outside in the overflow, “Shut it down! Shut it down!”

It’s clearly audible from inside, and Placentia PD goes to shut it down.

🪡 Blades disregards this, asking the board to “how many times has federal law enforcement been on campuses in the district?”

When there was no known history, Blades suggests that any fear is unreasonable.

Mind you, PYLUSD doesn’t have trans athletes, but she’s pushed for anti-trans policies.

🪡 The school district attorney is answering questions about Blades’ resolution, saying that the direct always requires warrants. He does acknowledge that “sometimes law enforcement does go into spaces without that… we would respond to that after the fact”.

ICE has doing exactly that regularly.

🪡 Blades wrote her own opinion about this resolution here -

She claims that “if these students were so fearful of law enforcement and being detained whether legal or illegal, they wouldn’t be walking out in front of law enforcement”.

It’s no surprise she’s not being taken at face value.

🪡 To be clear, there are TWO resolutions on the agenda today - one that was submitted in alignment with the state law, and the one we shared above that’s submitted by Blades.

The resolution people have issue with is the one submitted by Blades.