Kansas teacher arrested for clapping at city meeting
The arrest left some in the community feeling afraid after a physics teacher was handcuffed for applauding at a city commission meeting about a proposed data center.
A Kansas teacher has been arrested for clapping during a public meeting on a proposed data center.
KWCH reports Lux Claridge, a 37-year-old physics teacher at Emporia High School, was arrested at an Emporia City Commission meeting on Wednesday, July 22. Video shows Claridge clapping in support of people who spoke against zoning changes for the proposed Flint Hills Digital Campus project, then being handcuffed and removed.