Featured Image Credit: Regional School Unit 67
Topics: US News, News, Charlie Kirk, Politics
Lucy Devine
Topics: US News, News, Charlie Kirk, Politics
A school board meeting ended with a brawl over a teacher allegedly mocking activist Charlie Kirk.
Kirk, who co-founded the organization Turning Point USA, was shot dead at the age of just 31 on Wednesday, September 10, while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University.
At the Regional School Unit 67 meeting meeting, a conservative influencer confronted officials over remarks that a teacher had made last week.
Tim Bodnar - also known as the 'Truth-slinger' - accused the district of spreading 'communist propaganda' and condemned the comments, which haven't been made public.
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Footage from the meeting shows Bodnar loudly criticizing the teacher, before Board Chair Dianne Buck calls for order.
"You can bang that all you want, lady," said Bodnar.
Following a recess, he added: "I demand counseling for the kids who were hurt by Charlie Kirk's death that [the teacher] dissed.
"He can have free speech, he just can't have a job on taxpayer money!"
Bodnar then accuses Buck of ignoring him, after which board member Andrew Funaro intervenes.
"You're a foul, evil woman! You're a coward!" Bodnar shouts.
"Don't you insult that woman!" Funaro says, to which Bodnar asks: "Why not?"
"Because she's doing the best she can, and you don't know what we think," Funaro said.
"We haven't made a decision yet."
Bodnar then shouts back: "You should have made a decision when you found out!"
"We found out on Friday," said Funaro. "We're doing the best we can."
"It's too slow. The world is moving on way too fast for you, old man!" Said Bodnar.
Another recess followed but when the board returned, the tense situation seemed to escalate.
One man was asked to leave by police, and Bodnar began filming the meeting.
"You know I'm right, sir," he told Funaro, who responded: "I do not know you're right! You should go back down south and get some more clicks on your little YouTube. Isn't that what this is about?"
Although the livestream cut out for a few moments, when it resumed, Funaro could be seen slapping the phone from Bodnar's hand, before police intervened.
The meeting was then adjourned.
"PROUDEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE RIGHT THERE," Bodnar later wrote in a post.
"The Holy Spirit of GOD indwelt me... I dropped my arms and let God fight my battle. Funaro withered in the presence of a REAL MAN."
In a statement to The New York Post, Funaro said: “I am a Conservative and a great admirer of Charlie Kirk.
“I cannot speak for the Board but in my opinion any teacher who celebrates political violence in the classroom should be fired.
“It poisons the well for people who are actually doing the work to get indoctrination out of our schools like Charlie Kirk wanted.
“Though I disagree with my fellow Board members on many things, when it comes to a public menace invading our High School library, I will defend. I have total faith that the Board will do the right thing.”
A Lincoln Police chief has told WABI that the incident is under investigation.
UNILAD has also reached out to Lincoln Police Department for comment.