Washington police investigate ‘deeply disturbing’ school board meeting incident as hate crime

Two Zoom attendees interrupted the hybrid virtual and in-person meeting by repeating racial slurs.

A Washington school district is reeling after a school board meeting led by a Black superintendent was interrupted by virtual attendees – one displaying an image of George Floyd as a looped recording of racial slurs played.

Police in Enumclaw, a city about 50 miles southeast of Seattle, are now investigating the “deeply disturbing” Nov. 22 incident of what is often referred to as “Zoom-bombing” as a possible hate crime, the department said in a Wednesday statement.

Two Zoom attendees interrupted the hybrid virtual and in-person meeting by repeating racial slurs, the Enumclaw School District said in a statement. One of the individuals had in their frame an image of Floyd, whose murder by a Minneapolis police officer last year led to nationwide protests demanding police accountability and reform. The other appeared to be an elderly white man, the district said.

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