Lt Col Christopher Schilling: Military officer calls cops on mom for objecting to 'polysexual' posters at child's school

A senior US military official is under fire for calling the police on a mother who complained about polyamory and transgender identity posters at her daughter's school. After raising concerns about posters hanging at the entrance of her seven-year-school old's in North Hanover Township, New Jersey mother Angela Reading stated on Tucker Carlson Tonight that she was supposedly under investigation and being "monitored" by regional police enforcement. Children were required to establish a "safe area" as part of a class assignment. Don't be afraid of who you are, as well as flags representing various sexual orientations and ideologies, such as "gender queer, nonbinary, agender, transgender, and pansexual," are among the controversial sayings and drawings that the children wrote to make their classmates "feel good and accepted," according to the Daily Mail. Reading made other parents aware of the information in the poster's since-removed Facebook post. But according to the mother, police learned about her post after being made aware of it by Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Schilling, who took issue with it. The story has sparked a public outcry, with parents demanding decorated Lt Col Christopher Schilling resign. Reading, in her defense, argued that the unspecified elementary school's hallway display was "perverse," adding that "it should be illegal to expose my kids to sexual content."

Who is Lt Col Christopher Schilling?

High-ranking US military officer Christopher Schilling is stationed at McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. Reading claimed that she was being monitored by the police despite the fact that her post contained nothing unlawful or in violation of Facebook's terms and conditions. The mother claimed Schilling's apparent issues with her post sparked an online investigation. The military official, a senior staffer at the New Jersey military base, took to his Facebook account to say that staffers were working with local police to "monitor the situation" while ensuring "the continued safety of the entire community." The mother claimed that the chief of the North Hanover Police Department, Robert Duff, contacted her and asked her to remove the post after she learned about the military officers from the moderator of the school Facebook group where she posted her complaint. The astonished and outraged mother removed many children who were enrolled in the school permanently. "I actually pulled my kids from school the day I found out," the irate mom told Carlson "It was mind-boggling and I was worried for them," she added, questioning why the military would come after her "for simply raising concern about a public poster that is widely available for all to see." The mom recounted the pressure she felt and later contacted the police chief and "reminded him of the First Amendment," before wondering why a taxpayer-funded police department is utilizing its budget to follow a frivolous case originating from a harmless social media post. "We shouldn't be utilizing government resources and our positions to pressure individuals to take down Facebook posts," she told Carlson. "I also shared with him the post that he'd already seen." "There was nothing wrong. It didn't violate any law, it didn't violate any Facebook rule whatsoever." Carlson too agreed with the mother and said, "The purpose of the military is to defend us against foreign enemies, not to police Facebook posts."  He added that he hopes Schilling is 'removed from his command tonight,' saying the same for Police Chief Duff.