EXCERPT:
PELLEY (voice-over): "The board wanted to follow established procedures but a few activists, agitated by conspiracy theories, threatened librarians and board members calling them ‘groomers’ -- extreme rightwing hate speech meant to brand opponents as molesters grooming children for sex."
GEIER: "We've had a parent come in and tell a librarian that, ‘You are violating a state statute by providing pornography to a minor. I'm going to the sheriff. I'm going to have you arrested,’ and storm out. Now that's not just happened once, that's happened multiple times at multiple schools. I even got an email saying, ‘OK, the sheriff said no, the solicitor said no, I'm going to the FBI!’"
PELLEY: "School Superintendent Frank Rodriguez feared violence so he pulled the books."
GAREIS: "From someone outside looking in, it's almost obvious that most of the books hadn't been read prior to being challenged, that some other source was used to gather these things together. So when that happened, I was like, ‘OK.’ I knew we were in for a rough road."