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Sheriff Robert Norris is speaking into his body camera. "Today's date is April 20, approximately 7 a.m. Just want to document my visit to the Hayden Library. My attorney and I are just curious and would like to document this visit to see what kind of materials are on display here."

Norris, the sheriff of Kootenai County, Idaho, meets up outside the library with Marianna Cochran, the founder of CleanBooks4Kids, a "grassroots group of North Idaho citizens alarmed at the abundance of books sexualizing, grooming, and indoctrinating kids in our local libraries at taxpayer expense," to search for the book Identical, which Norris says he had "seen an image [of] floating on social media." [...]

They walk into the library, and for the next 45 minutes search for "obscene" books in the Young Adult section while Norris's camera is rolling in one of the most bizarre police body camera videos I've ever seen.

404media: Police Bodycam Shows Sheriff Hunting for 'Obscene' Books at Library

#MomsforLiberty Is Moms For Liberty Imploding?
Scandal, extremist ties, and an electoral thumping call the group’s future into doubt https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/is-moms-for-liberty-imploding?r=ziwt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

In a previous meeting, the head of the Tulsa chapter of conservative parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty criticized the same elementary school textbooks, claiming they contain social-emotional learning concepts that don’t belong in math classes. Social-emotional learning teaches children how to manage their emotions, make good decisions and relate to others.