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Brawl Erupts Outside Glendale School District Meeting on LGBTQ Studies

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At least three people were arrested following violent demonstrations outside the Glendale School District Building in Los Angeles County, California, on Tuesday, June 6, where a district meeting on LGBTQ Studies was being held, police said.

Video recorded by reporter Sergio Olmos shows police officers separating opposing groups, who were casting insults at each other, before breaking into a violent scuffle.

In a statement Glendale Police Department said that a dispersal order was issued after attempts to “de-escalate the crowd failed”.

“Several hundred protestors gathered, many waving the American flags and LGBTQ+ Pride flags, outside the scheduled GUSD Board Meeting,” the statement said.

On Monday, the school district issued a statement to Facebook flagging circulating disinformation on LGBTQ curriculum ahead of the scheduled board meeting. Credit: Sergio Olmos via Storyful

Video Transcript

- [INAUDIBLE] take it off. Let's see what you look like.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- [INAUDIBLE] bitch. Take that shit off.

- Get the fuck out of Glendale.

- Take that shit off. You a bitch. You a bitch.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Face [INAUDIBLE]. Face [INAUDIBLE].

- Hey.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Wearing a fucking kid's bicycle helmet.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- You are idiots.

- Who's streets?

- [INAUDIBLE] street.

- A piece of shit. A piece of shit. Fuck your flag. Don't push me.

- Hey, you know you're not going to walk out here in one piece.

- Take your masks off. Take your masks off [INAUDIBLE].

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- A piece of--

- Piece of shit.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Admit it. Admit you're a fucking piece of shit.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- They want to make America [INAUDIBLE].

- You are sick. Sick. You are sick people.

- You want to make America--

- You are sick people, sick people.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- You [INAUDIBLE]. You [INAUDIBLE] kids.

- He's a pedophile!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Hold up, hold up! Hold up!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Do not take the bait. Use your words. Do not get violent!

Do not get violent! Do not engage!

Step away! Step away! We are not here to fight! We are not here to fight!

- Back up!

- We are not here to fight!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Step away! Go away! Do not take the bait! Do not fight!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Do not fight! Do not fight!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Do not engage!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Do not engage!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Do not take the bait!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Do not [INAUDIBLE]. Do not put the police in danger. Do not take the bait.

They are here to protect you. Don't make them have to work harder than they have to. Do not put the police in--