An anti-mandate protest outside a South Okanagan high school resulted in a verbal confrontation between adults and students and, in one case, a protester yelling a racially charged insult and profanity at a student.
Highlights
- Incident occurred at Southern Okanagan Secondary School in Oliver, B.C., on Friday, Feb.
- Students say an anti-mandate protest outside a school resulted in a verbal confrontation between adults and students.
- In one case, a protester yelled a racially charged insult and profanity at a student.
- School District 53 superintendent Beverly Young says teachers tried to separate the protesters from students, but nobody called police.
- RCMP: Off-duty officer called to the scene to warn protesters they were not allowed near school property under Access to Services COVID-19 Vaccination Act, where access roads within a 20-metre radius of hospitals, clinics and schools cannot be impeded or disrupted.