'I won’t prosecute librarians or teachers,' Coty Wamp told Jezebel. The recent viral video of her isn’t as clear.
, inexplicably calls the question a “tough one,” before saying, “There’s going to come a time, in some of these books, where it crosses a criminal line. It’s called contributing to the delinquency of a minor.” On August 4, Wamp was elected DA for Tennessee’s fourth most-populous country. That same night, her brother, Weston Wamp , was elected mayor of the same county.I won’t prosecute librarians or teachers for the books that are in our schools, and I do not say that I will in this video.
Unfortunately, the clip adds to a growing and disturbing trend of right-wing extremists trying to ban or censor books, going after libraries, people who work in libraries, people who volunteer in libraries, people who fund libraries—really, anything library- or book-related. In June, a 30-year-old in Maryland
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