Rafael <joe@gmail.com> wrote in news:t2utdp$3smfh$190@news.freedyn.de:

> Merrick Garland should be impeached and removed from office for this.

The Virginia father who was arrested at a school board meeting when he
spoke out about his teen daughter being sexually assaulted by a
transgender student slammed the Department of Justice on Monday as being
�politicized and weaponized� for its handling of his case.

Scott Smith, who was recently pardoned by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin,
said in a new interview that he did not believe his case was treated
fairly by federal prosecutors.

�I really wanted to win this straight up in court on my own merit, but
unfortunately, you know as things have played out � our justice system
across this land is unfortunately politicized and weaponized to the
[hilt], and that should scare every American,� Smith told Fox News Monday
night.

Smith also addressed a recent Wall Street Journal editorial that claimed
the press used his altercation as proof of some type of greater right-wing
campaign, or �an attempt to fit Mr. Smith into the Democratic Party�s
portrayal of conservative critics of government as motivated by hatred.�

�It�s all true,� Smith said when presented with the article. �It�s what
they did.

�They used me to silence moms and dads and grandmothers and grandpas and
everybody else that we�re starting this movement to protect our children
to stand up for our rights, to protect our children and say what we think
is right for them.

�And there�s clear evidence that it somewhat worked,� he said, calling the
Justice Department memo to school boards �bone-chilling.�

Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County School Board meeting on June 22,
2021, when he spoke out about his teenage daughter being sexually
assaulted in a school bathroom by a transgender student. He reportedly
unleashed a storm of profanities and was convicted of disorderly conduct.

But he told �America Reports� he was not actually verbally sparring with
the unsupportive school board members, as was originally believed, but
rather a �radical parent� who called him a liar and threatened to �ruin�
him on social media.

�I never spoke to the school board. That whole story is really kind of
askew,� Smith said.

�I was sitting in my little area, and a radical protester came and I heard
this shouting behind me, and I turned around, and it was my wife and her �
I didn�t even know my wife was there. She came in behind me,� he
recounted.

�So I stepped in, tried to explain to this lady what was going on,� he
said, saying he told the woman about his daughter�s assault by a
transgender student.

�She looked at me dead in the face and said, �That�s not true, that�s not
what happened. You are lying.��

The police tried to de-escalate the situation, Smith said, but when they
walked away, he again turned to engage the woman verbally.

That was when, he said, she threatened to �ruin� him on social media.

�I called her an expletive � the next thing I know, there are hands all
over me, grabbing me from behind,� Smith recounted.

He said he was never �really fighting to clear my name from a disorderly
conduct charge, I mean, I�m a country boy, I�m just disorderly sometimes.

�You know, what this was all about was my free speech, you know, that
should not have happened that day,� he told anchor John Roberts.

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Smith was pardoned by Youngkin on Sunday when the Republican governor told
�Fox News Sunday,� �I spoke with Mr. Smith on Friday, and I had the
privilege of telling Mr. Smith that I will pardon him, and we did that on
Friday.

�We righted a wrong. He should�ve never been prosecuted here. This was a
dad standing up for his daughter.�

But Loudon County Democratic Commonwealth�s Attorney Buta Biberaj, who was
ultimately removed from the case, slammed the pardon as a �political
stunt� and an �unprecedented, inappropriate intervention into an active
legal case.�

She accused Youngkin of making himself �judge and jury� over herself and
politically opposite county officials who were involved in the case.

When asked about those comments on Monday, Smith said Biberaj is �one of
the most evil people I�ve ever met.�

�Unfortunately, I had to deal with her face-to-face with the prosecution
of the sexual predator of my daughter,� he said. �We need to vote her
out.�

The teenage suspect who sexually assaulted Smith�s daughter was found
guilty of two counts of forcible sodomy.

The suspect was sentenced to a residential treatment facility and placed
on the sex offender registry.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/dad-arrested-at-school-board-meeting-after-
daughters-sexual-assault-rips-politicized-doj/