The comments were made from a Facebook account under the name “Sean Trujillo (also Shane).” The account identifies the owner of the account as “chairman at Michigan’s 11th Congressional District Republican Committee.”
Marcia Frobish, a board member at the library, told Bridge she filed a report with the sheriff’s office Thursday saying the remarks raised concerns for the safety of library employees and that officials wanted to document the online statement “in case something happened.”
An officer at the sheriff’s department confirmed a report had been filed and that the allegation was being investigated.
Despite controversy over the books, the online suggestion to take over the library by force is the first perceived threat the library or its staff has received, Frobish said, adding that the library recently purchased a security system in response to the year-long debate, which will be installed soon.
In an emailed response to a request for comment, Trejo wrote Bridge that the “state should shut down this library and any library that has pornography books available for kids. It should not be allowed to exist on private funding or crowdsourced funding of any kind.”
The books under criticism by some community members are award-winning graphic novels that have LGBTQ themes. One of them, “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” includes drawings of sex acts; while the others depict same-sex relationships among teens.
Trejo wrote Bridge that his Facebook comment recommending the library be shut down “by force” meant “This must be shut down through the force of law immediately.”
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