Fury as US Army Lieutenant Colonel calls cops on New Jersey mom over online complaints about school

A high-ranking US military officer is facing backlash for calling the police on a mother who complained about sexual preference posters at her daughter’s school.

Recounting her story on Tucker Carlson Tonight, New Jersey mother Angela Reading revealed she was told local police were “watching” her, after raising concerns about signs hanging at the entrance to her school. seven-year-old son in North Hanover Township.

Reportedly part of a task to create a “safe space” for students, the colorful art installations contain language promoting different kinds of sexuality, including the virtues of being both “poly” and “pansexual,” all scribbled in children’s handwriting.

In her post, posted on November 22, Reading alerted other parents to the content of the posters, ultimately drawing an unanticipated response from local police.

Speaking on national television on Thursday, Reading revealed that police officers learned of his deleted Facebook post after being tipped off by a lieutenant colonel at the nearby McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst military base, who took issue with the post.

The story has since generated a pronounced public outcry, with parents now demanding that decorated Lt. Col. Christopher Schilling resign.

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Meanwhile, Reading argued in its post that the unspecified primary school hallway display was “kinky” and said it “should be illegal to expose my children to sexual content.”

The photos show some of the controversial phrases and drawings written by children to make students “feel good and accepted,” including the message “don’t be afraid of who you are” and flags associated with sexual orientations and ideologies such as “gender queer.” . ‘, ‘non-binary’, ‘agender’, ‘transgender’ and ‘pansexual’.

Reading revealed to Carlson on Wednesday how after she posted her post, she was criticized by Schilling, who took to her own Facebook to claim there were “safety concerns” with Reading’s post, prompting her to call the police.

The military official, a senior official at the New Jersey military base, said the personnel were working with local police to ‘monitor the situation’ while ensuring ‘the continued safety of the entire community’.

Reading said she was stunned by Schilling’s statement, after learning about the alleged investigation online.

“I was beyond shocked, I was scared,” recalled Reading, who did not provide the name of the school or her daughter, but revealed that she had more than one child enrolled before finally deciding to drop them both permanently.

“I actually pulled my kids out of school the day I found out,” the furious mother told Carlson, 53, in an exclusive interview.

“It was amazing and I was worried about them,” she added, questioning why the military would go after her.for simply raising your concern about a public billboard that is widely available for all to see.’

Reading also referred to the accusation issued by Schilling in her recent Facebook post, in which she claimed that the mother’s actions “caused safety concerns for many families.”

Calling her post “moderated,” Reading explained to Carlson how her post, which was saved by multiple users online before it was removed, simply explained that the content and messages seen on the billboards were inappropriate for children. at such a tender age, particularly her. seven year old daughter

“He was essentially saying that he didn’t think my seven-year-old son was the appropriate age to be exposed to words like polysexual and pansexual,” Reading recalled.

‘I said that all people deserve love and respect. My post was very explicit about it. Still, it provoked this response and it’s really scary that in this country we can’t have the right to speak up and raise concerns about our public education system.

Reading went on to reveal that he learned of Schilling’s apparent misgivings with his posting of tThe administrator of the school’s Facebook group where she posted her complaint, who told her that North Hanover Police Department Chief Robert Duff reached out to her urging her to remove it.

The mother recalled the pressure she felt after learning she was under police scrutiny, telling Carlson she thought to herself, ‘I don’t want Homeland Security coming after me. Download the post. I don’t want to have to deal with this.

Eventually, he relented, even though the post didn’t contain anything illegal or go against Facebook’s terms and services.

She told Carlson that she then he contacted the police chief and “reminded him of the First Amendment,” before asking aloud why a taxpayer-funded police force is using its budget to pursue a baseless investigation stemming from a harmless post on the internet. social.

“We shouldn’t be using government resources and our positions to pressure people to remove posts from Facebook,” he told Carlson.

“I also shared with him the post that he had already seen,” he added. ‘There was nothing wrong. He didn’t break any laws, he didn’t break any Facebook rules at all.

Hearing the mother’s story, Carlson seemed to agree, stating, “The purpose of the military is to defend us against foreign enemies, not police Facebook posts.”

He added that he expects Schilling to be “removed from his command tonight,” saying the same for Police Chief Duff.

Meanwhile, Joint Base confirmed Thursday that it notified law enforcement about Reading’s post, calling it a “common information-sharing practice among law enforcement entities.”

Reading children are now enrolled in a new school.