Proud Boys storm San Francisco ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ for kids, shout slurs: cops

Authorities are investigating a attainable hate crime after alleged members of the far-right group Proud Boys shouted anti-LGBTQ slurs throughout a “Drag Queen Story Hour” for younger youngsters at a San Francisco library over the weekend.

Deputies had been known as to the San Lorenzo Library on Saturday afternoon after 5 males allegedly stormed the studying for preschool-age kids throughout Pleasure Month, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.

“The boys had been described as members of the Proud Boys group, identified to be a proper wing hate group with anti-LGBTQ affiliations,” the sheriff’s workplace stated.

“The boys had been described as extraordinarily aggressive with a threatening violent demeanor inflicting folks to worry for his or her security.”

Native drag queen Panda Dulce, who was internet hosting the occasion, claimed the boys shouted “tranny” and “pedophile” as they disrupted the occasion.

San Francisco drag queen Panda Dulce was internet hosting the occasion and claimed the boys shouted “tranny” and “pedophile.”

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Drag queen Pickle reads from a guide in the course of the Drag Queen Story Hour at a library in Los Angeles.

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Scalene Onixxx (left) and Athena Kills (proper) are greeted by younger ladies following a session of Drag Queen Story Hour at Cellar Door Books in Riverside, California.

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Athena Kills studying to a gaggle of oldsters and youngsters.

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The deputies had been capable of “de-escalate” the state of affairs, the sheriff’s workplace stated.

No arrests have been made and nobody was bodily harmed, however sheriff’s officers are investigating the incident as a attainable hate crime and harassment of kids.

Quite a lot of youngsters and their dad and mom had been on the occasion when the ordeal unfolded, authorities stated.

A police supply talks to a member of the anti-LGBTQ group MassResistance, who was booing to disrupt the Drag Queen Story Hour program on the West Valley Regional Department Library on July 26.

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5 members of the Proud Boys stormed the story hour and shouted slurs in entrance of the kids attending.

The boys had been described as extraordinarily aggressive with a threatening violent demeanor.

The deputies had been capable of “de-escalate” the state of affairs.

No arrests have been made.

The San Francisco incident occurred on the identical day a group of 31 males with ties to a white nationalist hate group had been arrested close to a LGBTQ Pleasure occasion in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Police stated the boys, who belonged to the Patriot Entrance, had riot gear and had been seen loading folks right into a U-Haul at a resort car parking zone.