Security Officer Who Ordered Students To Remove Pro-Life Apparel Fired
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Students and chaperones from a Catholic school in Greenville, South Carolina were kicked out of the National Air and Space Museum for wearing pro-life hats.
According to the American Center for Law and Justice, the visitors were asked by a security guard at the Museum to remove their hats because it was a “neutral zone.”
They were also allegedly harassed by two employees.
The Smithsonian has admitted wrongdoing and staff is now undergoing “immediate retraining.”
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum required staff there to undergo an “immediate retraining” after a group of students visiting during the annual March for Life in D.C. were kicked out of the museum for refusing to remove their hats that had pro-life messages on them.
The incident took place on Jan. 20, when a group of students from a Catholic school in Greenville, South Carolina visiting the nation’s capital for the annual pro-life march decided to make a stop at the museum. They were all donning blue beanies with the words “Rosary, PRO-LIFE” on them at the time.
At a certain point, a security officer told the students their hats were not allowed inside the museum, but the kids refused to take them off. As a result, they were ultimately forced to leave the museum.
“We apologize that visitors were asked to remove their hats. Asking visitors to remove hats and clothing is not in keeping with our policy or protocols,” Chief Spokesperson for the Smithsonian Institution Linda St. Thomas told The National Desk (TND). “We provided immediate retraining to prevent a re-occurrence of this kind of error.”
One of the security officers has been fired.
The National Archives and Records Administration says it has fired the security officer responsible for telling students that they could not wear pro-life apparel in the museum.
On Jan. 20, 2023, the day the national March for Life took place in Washington, D.C., security officers at the National Archives ordered multiple visitors to “remove their hats and cover their attire displaying pro-life messages,” according to a letter from acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall obtained by The Daily Signal.
“This action was contrary to NARA policy,” she said. “The irony that this happened just steps away from the permanent display of the original Bill of Rights is not lost on me or any of the employees who proudly welcome more than one million annual visitors to the Museum.”
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“Our vendor conducted its own investigation of the incident and determined a supervisor that it employed, who was working that day, provided instructions to other security officers who work for the same vendor that were contrary to our policy,” she explained. “The vendor has removed this supervisor from NARA’s contract, and that individual is no longer working in any NARA facility.”
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