About 100 people rallied Thursday in Abbeville, La., in support of an elementary school teacher who was forcibly handcuffed and removed from a school board meeting Monday night after questioning a superintendent’s pay raise. The video shows Hargrave confronting Vermilion School Superintendent Jerome Puyau about a roughly $30,000 pay raise he received from the school board in a 5-3 vote. But Anthony Fontana, the Vermilion Parish School Board president, then declared that her comment wasn't "germane" to the vote on the contract, and banged his gavel in an attempt to silence her. According to school board member Kibbie Pillette, Fontana then beckoned off-camera to the officer, who interrupted Hargrave while she was speaking and ordered her out. “Please go to your local school board meetings.

Source: Fox News January 12, 2018 05:26 UTC