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Gun-Carrying Trump Supporter Tries to Interrupt Drag Queen Storytime
He was arrested at a Houston library for trespassing.
An angry Trump supporter carrying a concealed weapon tried to interrupt Drag Queen Storytime in Houston last weekend.
Police were called after James “Doc” Greene Sr. showed up to the Freed-Montrose Library on Saturday shortly before the storytime began and refused to leave.
“A manager asked us for assistance because [Greene] was banned from the library, and would not leave when he was asked,” Jodi Silva, a spokesperson for the Houston Police Department, said. “He was previously banned for filming children at the library and was known to cause disturbances. Several officers had to escort him out.”
Greene filmed part of the incident, uploading a video to YouTube, called “Arrested for being a Christian” (not what happened, sir).
In the first video, he repeatedly asks to be told how he is trespassing, and claims the people at the library work for him because he’s a taxpayer.
After a slew of cops finally get him to leave the building, Greene argues that “We have a bunch of homosexuals who are molesting children, and they’re doing it with your help.”
He continued to stream to Facebook after that, where he was finally arrested and had his gun taken off his person outside of the library for refusing to fully leave the premises. After that, he reportedly complained of chest pains and was taken to the hospital rather than into police custody.
Greene’s Facebook claims that the librarian “had [him] arrested simply because she does not like having a Christian man in the library.” It also lists him as an on-air personality at the conservative Raging Elephants Radio broadcast, a “Former Rabel Rouser at Texas Nationalist Movement,” and features a slew of pro-Trump memes.
Other Christian activists had recently lost a lawsuit in Texas attempting to get Drag Queen Storytime banned from Houston libraries. The judge dismissed their case, which claimed the drag queens were promoting “ideology [that] is immoral, obscene and subversive to human flourishing.”
But as for Saturday's Drag Queen Storytime, the good news is that as much as Greene likely wanted to cause a disruption and upset the event, the drag queen who was reading that day says he failed to succeed.
\u201c@CaelanConrad I was the queen reading on that particular day, and while his intention might have been to ruin the day for everyone involved, it completely failed. \n\nLibrary management & HPD kept him away from the kids, & we had no knowledge it even happened until we were done.\u201d— REGINA OVERTHROW THE GOV-DUBOIS (@REGINA OVERTHROW THE GOV-DUBOIS) 1548981020
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
