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Racist 'Zoom Bombing' Disrupts New London School Board Meeting

Courtesy of New London Public Schools

A video conference meeting of the school board in New London, Connecticut, was interrupted by someone using racial slurs.

The practice is called ‘zoom bombing’ — outsiders cut in on the line in the middle of a meeting on the conference call app Zoom.

An unknown third party interrupted the meeting for about thirty seconds, using the N-word and other racial slurs, according to the New London Day.

The interruption came as a youth activist group argued in favor of removing police from New London schools.

School board leaders said they would not tolerate hate speech and promised a full investigation.

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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