School district reached settlement after viral video showed teacher vowing to turn students into 'revolutionaries'
A school district in California paid a teacher to resign after a viral video showed him professing his allegiance to antifa, an extremist left-wing political movement.
Gabriel Gipe, a former AP Government teacher at Inderkum High School in Sacramento, was paid more than three years’ salary to step down. As part of his settlement with the Natomas Unified School District in January, officials agreed to pay Gipe $190,000 – his annual base salary was roughly $60,000, The Sacramento Bee reported. The settlement also prevents the district from discussing details of his departure with any potential employers.
“California is not an easy place to fire a teacher,” Superintendent Chris Evans told The Sacramento Bee.
Gipe resigned four months after Project Veritas, a conservative group known for undercover sting operations, published secretly recorded video of him saying, “I have 180 days to turn them into revolutionaries.” When asked how he planned to achieve that, Gipe replied, “Scare the f*** out of them.”
Once the video went viral, sending parents into an uproar, the school district launched an investigation. In addition to the antifa flag referenced in the video, his classroom featured art from the Occupy Oakland protests and magnets showing brass knuckles, beer and an image of former President Donald Trump with the subtext: “Days without being a national...
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