Arizona school board member gets backlash after mocking board president with Nazi salute
An Arizona school board member is facing calls to resign after appearing to make a Nazi salute during a contentious public meeting before later comparing the board president to a...
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An Arizona school board member is facing calls to resign after appearing to make a Nazi salute during a contentious public meeting before later comparing the board president to a dictator and saying, "All I could think of tonight was Hitler." Video from a May 26 Deer Valley Unified School District Governing Board meeting appears to show board member Kimberly Fisher raising her right arm and saying, "Heil, heil" during a dispute with board President Paul Carver Jr. The exchange occurred near the end of the meeting during a disagreement over scheduling a community study session related to district boundary discussions. According to video of the meeting, Fisher objected to holding the session during the afternoon, arguing that community members would have difficulty attending. NJ COUNCILWOMAN CONDEMNS 'IGNORANCE' OF COMPARING ICE AGENTS TO NAZIS DURING HEATED MEETING "The whole point of having a study session with our community is that we can get their input and they can hear our discussions," Fisher said during the meeting. Carver later said he moved to adjourn the meeting because the discussion involved an item that was not on the posted agenda and could have raised concerns under Arizona's Open Meeting Law . "The reason for calling for the adjournment was simply that, as the question turned into discussion concerning an item that was not on the agenda, the board was moving into an area that could have been considered a violation of Arizona's Open Meeting Law," Carver said in a Facebook video posted after the meeting. BYRON DONALDS REBUKES 'SQUAD' MEMBER OVER 'FASCIST' SLUR: ‘DO I LOOK LIKE A MEMBER OF THE THIRD REICH?’ Carver said Fisher made the gesture and comment after the motion to adjourn. "The point behind this post is that there's a lot of noise being made that she may have been justified in making that statement because she felt like I was being a dictator," Carver said. "I was simply following the rules of the state of Arizona." He added that "it is never…