A New Hampshire man was arrested on Monday after continually interrupting people at a school board meeting while protesting a book assigned in one of his daughter's classes, according to The Huffington Post.
William Baer, whose daughter attends Gilford High School, was detained by police after protesting Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult over sexually explicit content.
"You are going to arrest me because I violated the two-minute rule?" Baer asked after he was reprimanded for speaking for longer than allowed, according to WCVB-TV footage. "I guess you are going to have to arrest me."
After his arrest, he was charged with disorderly conduct, HuffPost said. School officials said it was his several interruptions -- not the content of his protest -- that led to his arrest.
The novel, which focuses on a school shooting in New Hampshire, has been assigned to students in the past. However, the district said they forgot to notify parents this year and apologized, according to The New Hampshire Union-Leader.
Picoult, a New Hampshire native, said all three of her kids read the book while they were in high school and suggested parents should "read the book with your kids, by all means use it as a springboard for discussion with your kids."
Baer told WMUR-TV that he plans to "fight his arrest." If convicted, he could face up to a $1,200 fine.
Some people are arguing that Baer's First Amendment rights were violated.
"Congrats to William Baer for standing up for his beliefs and trying to raise his kids right," one Twitter user said.
Plenty of others came to the support of Nineteen Minutes in the school's curriculum as well.
"Story of the day: Parents outraged that NINETEEN MINUTES by @jodipicoult has s-e-x ... Be grateful that kids read. Period. And then to have a teacher guide them, reflect with them? Aces," another user said.
