A Virginia woman was arrested Friday after she appeared to threaten school board officials while they met to vote on whether to lift a mask requirement.
The woman, Amelia King, 42, was accused of making an oral threat on school property after she was cut off during a public comment section of the Page County public school board meeting Thursday, the Luray Police Department said in a statement.
When a board member again cut King off, noting that three minutes is a policy, she said: “I’ll see y’all on Monday.”King, who was released on $5,000 bond, did not respond to a message left Friday on a phone number listed under her name. But later in Thursday’s meeting she emailed an apology to a board member saying that she was “only speaking figuratively.”
In a joint statement Friday, the school district superintendent and board chair said King’s comments “go against everything we wish to model for our students” and “they go against the very nature of how we as a community should interact with each other.”