SAN LORENZO, Calif. – Authorities are investigating a possible hate crime after a group of men allegedly shouted homophobic and anti-LGBTQ insults during Drag Queen’s History Hour at a library in the San Francisco Bay Area. said a sheriff’s officer.
Deputies responded to the San Lorenzo Library on Saturday afternoon after reports of reading disturbances for preschoolers during Pride Month, said Lt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.
The host of the children’s story show, drag queen of the Gulf Panda Dulcie, said on Instagram that the group had interrupted the event, shouting “trani” and “pedophile”. The break “completely scared all the children” and the group “tried to escalate to violence”, he wrote.
No arrests were made, no one was physically injured, and sheriff’s officers are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime and child abuse, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
“It looks like the group of men may be affiliated with the Proud Boys,” Kelly said, adding that the five men involved were dressed in black and yellow associated with the far-right group.
Kelly said the sheriff’s office planned to send alternates to future events at the library “to deal with all sorts of destroyers.”
The incident was first reported by KQED.
In Idaho, more than two dozen members of a white supremacist group were arrested near a pride event. Police say the 31 members of the Patriotic Front had the means to fight the riots and were spotted loading people into U-Haul in a hotel car park in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Among those arrested was Thomas Rousseau of Grapevine, Texas, who was identified by the Southern Legal Center for Poverty as the 23-year-old who founded the group.
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