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He would know, he said. He was there. “That’s what I witnessed. That’s what I saw,” teacher Benjamin Plummer can be heard saying in a video of the incident published by Fox 5 DC. “When I heard the media just blaming Trump supporters the whole time, I knew then that it was a setup.” Plummer defended the mob that marched to the Capitol as “incredibly peaceful” and “Christians,” and instead told his young class at the diverse Fred M. Lynn Middle School that the summer’s Black Lives Matter protesters were to blame for “destroying cities.” Plummer, who did not respond ...

Replies(8) Supporters of President Donald Trump hold a "Stop The Steal" rally in Washington on Jan. 6 amid ratification of Presidential election results. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images) WOODBRIDGE, VA – A teacher at Fred Lynn Middle School has been placed on leave after he told his students on a Zoom call last week that he was at the riots at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month, according to published reports. The Prince William Times reported Tuesday that Benjamin Plummer was captured on video shot by a student talking about his experience at the Capitol on Jan. 6 when which insurgents and sup...

“Now, you have Trump supporters that are incredibly peaceful, they’re all Christians, they believe in God. They’re not there to damage or hurt things," Plummer told his students.

Teacher on leave after video circulates defending mob march By MATTHEW BARAKATJanuary 19, 2021 GMT FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia middle school teacher has been placed on leave after he apparently told students in a virtual classroom that he attended the Jan. 6 mob march on the Capitol and described it as a peaceful event. The short video circulating on social media appears to show Benjamin Plummer, a teacher and soccer coach at Fred Lynn Middle School in Woodbridge, talking to students about the Jan. 6 march and attack on the Capitol. In the video, the teacher says, “I was...