Judging Freedom - CA school & Masks
Episode Date: August 22, 2022Shocking moment boy, 4, is removed from his Bay Area school by POLICE after he refused to wear a mask: Dad says face-coverings leave youngster who may have special needs 'distraught' https://...www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11128709/Shocking-moment-Silicon-Valley-school-principal-calls-POLICE-boy-4-refused-wear-mask.html #School #masks #californiaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Monday, August 22nd, 2022.
It's about 1125 in the morning here on the east coast of the United States, 3,000 miles from here, the left coast of the United States,
where the totalitarian edicts of Governor Gavin Newsom still abide, and school districts require
elementary school, even kindergarten children, even pre-K children to wear masks. There was a terrible incident the other day.
Now, this is not your typical judging freedom segment.
This is the story of a four-year-old special needs boy
who recoiled and became extremely distressed
when his parents put a mask on his face.
And so they brought him to school put a mask on his face. And so they brought him to school
without the mask on his face. What do you think the school did? Call the police and have the child
physically removed from school and brought into the hands of his parents. Now, because he's a child,
we don't have his name. The father has chosen not to give his name. The father was there when this happened. The father is not a physician, but is in the medical field and is aware of the law in California, which prohibits forcing a special needs child to wear something artificial on his face unless it's to save a life.
The school district, of course, mimicking what Governor Newsom said,
decided to get tough.
Watch this.
I welcome him here.
And I've said this before and I'll say it again.
I want him here, but it is our district policy. Uh, Ms. Williams?
Oh, that's not a police officer. Here it is, our district policy. We have a. Notice, here she comes,
pulling him out of class.
Police officer, police officer removed a four year old from campus.
But the school district has decided on independently because from what I
understand is the numbers within their school district has increased.
Yeah.
So that's their base in that decision.
All right.
So you originally saw a teacher saying, we don't want to do this, but we feel we have to.
That was a video taken by the father. Then you saw a video taken by the boy's father of the child being escorted out of the building by a teacher.
And then what you didn't see was a video taken by the father of the police officer physically escorting the child off the campus. Then you saw a video of the police officer's legs and feet and a can of soda pop
in his hand while he was talking to the father saying, I don't like doing this, but it's my job.
You know what? How about asserting the moral right of parents to decide what goes on a child's face
rather than the authoritarian right of the school to force something upon a
four-year-old special needs child against the wishes of the parents and in such a way as to
cause such distress on the child. That is a form of child abuse. Was this an arrest? Technically, yes, it was an arrest. When you are not free to leave or
when the police forcibly move you from A to B, whether you're four or 40, it's an arrest. He
wasn't taken to a jail. He obviously wasn't prosecuted. He's too young to be prosecuted
for anything. He didn't commit a crime. There isn't even an allegation he committed a crime.
Oh, there isn't an allegation that he committed a crime?
Judge, then what the hell were the cops doing there?
That's the way the schools are run in California.
Don't obey a school rule and the police will toss you,
even if it's not a crime.
What should the cop have done?
Not a police issue, principal.
You handle it.
But that's not what happens in Gavin Newsom's California.
More on this as we get it.
Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom.