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Activist says San Antonio police union had her thrown out of job fair for questioning why they were
Activist says San Antonio police union had her thrown out of job fair for questioning why they were thereA voting-rights activist said she was ejected from a San Antonio charter school's career day last Thursday for questioning why the city's police union was also invited to the event.
"Yes, the exchange may have been confrontational, but there were no raised voices," said Valerie Reiffert, executive director of local nonprofit Radical Registrars, who accused the union of having her removed from campus. "There was no animosity or malice. It wasn't done in front of students."
However, a representative of charter school Jubilee San Antonio said its principal ejected Reiffert, one of the career fair's invited presenters, for creating a "disturbance" it didn't want students to witness.
Reiffert, a police-accountability advocate whose group registers marginalized people to vote, said her dismissal took place after she asked a representative of the San Antonio Police Officers Association (SAPOA) to explain why the group had a table at the fair.
Read more: https://www.sacurrent.com/news/activist-says-san-antonio-police-union-had-her-thrown-out-of-job-fair-for-questioning-why-they-were-there-28740273