(Press and Guide) The Dearborn Public [Schools] Board of Education meeting was shut down Monday night after the fire marshal declared the meeting room too full to continue after hundreds of people gathered in the room and in adjacent hallways to discuss the district’s policy on books some deem controversial.
The meeting went into recess while officials decided a course of action, and a bit later, Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin came out to quiet the crowd and ask them all to go home.
“We can have a spirited debate, but we can’t conduct ourselves this way,” he said. “We are brothers and sisters regardless of race, ethnicity, religion. We are better than this. … I sincerely love each and every one of you in this room; we’re a family.”
