Fight breaks out after school board in Missouri votes for mask mandate

A fight broke out Tuesday evening after a Missouri school board unanimously approved a mask mandate as students return to classrooms.

ABC affiliate KMBC reported that Pleasant Hill Police Department officers responded to a fist fight involving several people in a parking lot following the vote by the Pleasant Hill Board of Education. One individual was handcuffed.

The school district has reported 21 coronavirus cases in the first nine days of the school year, more than all of last year, according to KMBC. The news station also reported that 180 students and faculty are quarantining. Overall, 7 percent of the Pleasant Hill population is quarantining.

The fist fight outside the school board meeting marks the latest violent outburst over local officials imposing mask mandates for schools to help guard against the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19.