A high school football game in Idaho was halted Friday night when a parent refused to comply with a mask order. With Emmett leading host Caldwell 35-0 at halftime and players in the locker room, coaches and players were sent home.
The situation, particularly notable because of the parent in question, was covered in-depth by
Nicole Foy of the Idaho Statesman.
Ammon Bundy, who rose to national notoriety during a 2016 armed occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon, has a son on Emmett's varsity football team and was the parent at the center of the controversy, according to the Statesman. The elder Bundy was arrested twice in August for protesting mask orders at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise.
"I'm very disappointed that our kids lost the chance to be able to play a Friday night football game," Caldwell school board president Marisela Pesina told the Idaho Statesman. "Our parents have been following the rules and it makes me sad that because someone wants to prove their point, we had to stop our game."
