This is a disturbing situation. A witness described the scene in an email she sent to Michelle Malkin.

“Parents, you need to question these people!:” Shock video of dad arrested at school meeting after challenging Common Core

I know you are vehemently against the Common Core standards that are being thrust upon our children…Last night I attended a “forum” held by our school system. In a nutshell, it was an hour and a half long and the first hour was listening to Dallas Dance (county superintendent), Lillian Lowery (state superintendent),a PTA leader, and a teacher from Catonsville High School basically tell us how great this was going to be.

Then we [watched] a video starting with Martin O’Malley saying how great it was, and then other “educators” saying how great it was. Finally, Dallas Dance read some written questions submitted by parents for the other 3 in the forum to answer. They were mostly softball questions of course and you could feel everyone’s frustration that no hard- hitting questions were being asked.

Finally, a frustrated parent got up and interrupted Lillian Lowery and was challenging one of her pre-planned answers. He was not rude but they had security come in to take him out. Luckily a parent was videotaping the event and sent it to our local media.

I have attached a link to the Baltimore Sun website that has an article and the video of the father being dragged out. He was arrested and held until 3:00 a.m. He was just a dad trying to get some information about his children’s education and ended up in jail for not sitting down and shutting up. I was there and it was absolutely chilling to watch this man silenced.

Here’s the video.

A bit of good news as an update — the charges are being dropped, State’s Attorney dismisses charges against man who interrupted Common Core town  hall:

“The Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office has just received and reviewed  the facts of this case, the release continues.”In the interest of justice,  further prosecution will not accomplish anything more.  Therefore, the  charges have been dismissed.”