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Only audio/video shows the teacher threatening others ‘if anything happens’ to her

A black teacher and several students at California’s Beverly Hills High School claim that a “boisterous” crowd of pro-Trump students wandered through the halls “harassing” and “intimidating” others on Election Day.

According to the Beverly Hills Courier, black students allege they were “subjected to racial epithets” during a lunchtime pro-Trump student-led rally at which many wore MAGA hats and “carried or wrapped themselves in Trump banners or hoisted flags on poles.”

A TikTok video of the event shows pro-Trump students even cheered on a school security guard who was convinced to (seemingly reluctantly) hold up a Trump banner.

The video otherwise appears innocuous enough: Pro-Trump students are just cheering and celebrating and, as the Courier notes, waving banners and flags.

The “spirited” demonstrations, as the Los Angeles Times put it, led to Principal Drew Stewart sending a message to parents noting that, while students’ free speech rights would not be limited, “their ability to congregate in large groups” would be so as to make others on campus “feel safe.”

At a November 12 Board of Trustees meeting, black students and fashion teacher Bella Ivory (who’s also advisor to the school’s Black Student Union) alleged some of the pro-Trump students — who were “screaming profanities and slurs and just different things through the door” including the n-word — tried to get into Ivory’s classroom.

Ivory (pictured) tearfully recounted that her students “looked so frightened,” with one of them saying the pro-Trumpers “looked like the KKK,” according to FOX 11.

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One student, who claimed “she’s dealt with ‘a lot of racism'” during her time at BHHS, said “From 8:30 to 2:30, all week being in school felt like a nightmare. What the Black students and Miss Bella had to deal with that week had nothing to do with politics. That week, [being] stormed, being called the N-word… Being shunned, all because you were black became the normal.”

Another student claimed he saw “slurs” written on bathroom walls, as well as as “violent behavior” towards Ivory and the Black Student Union.

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The FOX 11 report notes district officials are investigating the situation, which includes cell phone audio from one of Ivory’s students. In it, Ivory can be heard saying “If anything happens to me at this school, my family will come for your families. If anything happens to my son, I will come for your families.”

Ivory later claimed the audio was “edited,” and that she “wasn’t making threats, but sharing her feelings in a conversation with students.”

Ivory apparently took a leave of absence after the incident and hasn’t yet returned, citing “stress.”

The Black Conservative Perspective on YouTube, which includes the student cell phone audio recording in question, wonders why there are no videos or other audio recordings of the pro-Trump BHHS “mob” engaging in the alleged threatening behavior — not to mention photos of the racial epithets on the bathroom walls.

“Now prove it — prove it,” the host says in his report. “Where are the pictures of the racial slurs? Where are the audio recordings of people being harassed and called racial slurs? […] If there was evidence it would be in the news reports. They’d be all on it, ok? It’d be everywhere.”

Another Beverly Hills High teacher was terminated earlier this month allegedly for criticizing the pro-Trump student rally and Trump’s election, the Beverly Press reports.

Joanie Garratt, a retired 30-year veteran teacher serving as a long-term substitute for an AP U.S. History class, wrote that the BHHS administration wasn’t at fault for the rally — it came from from the students’ “leader, His Majesty, King” (aka Trump).

Garratt also claimed “many other teachers fear retaliation for criticizing the president-elect and his supporters online.”

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