Pastor John K. Amanchukwu walked into a North Carolina school board meeting and did something officials apparently found intolerable: He read adults the words students could get from their own high school library.
Police removed him from the meeting. Days later, the book was off the shelf and the local police department was ending its off-duty security arrangement with the board.
Amanchukwu’s Friday update delivered both reversals at once:
BREAKING NEWS!!!
The book that I read from, entitled PUSH, has been removed!!!
AND….. The Troutman Police Department will no longer authorize its officers to work off-duty security assignments at meetings of the Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education. Recent incidents have raised concerns about the legal basis for requested removals, the protection of Constitutional rights, and the expectations placed on officers assigned to these meetings.
To be continued!!!
More coming soon!
— John K. Amanchukwu Sr. (@REVWUTRUTH) October 17, 2026
The Gateway Pundit reports that Amanchukwu appeared before the Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education on Oct. 12 and began reading from Push, the 1996 novel by Sapphire, whose legal name is Ramona Lofton.
The book contains explicit depictions of incest, rape, physical abuse and emotional trauma.
Board Chair Dr. Doug Knight warned Amanchukwu before the reading that “nasty words” would not be allowed. Amanchukwu argued that silencing him for quoting a book available at Lake Norman High School violated his First Amendment rights, and at least one board member supported his objection.
When Amanchukwu continued, Knight ruled him out of order and officers escorted him away from the podium. The pastor later promised a lawsuit and described the spectacle in one devastating line: “THE BOOK STAYS. THE PREACHER GETS SILENCED.”
That line did not age well for the board.
Amanchukwu announced Friday that Push had been removed from the school library. He also published a letter from Troutman Police Chief Josh Watson.
Effective Oct. 26, the department will no longer authorize officers to take off-duty security assignments at the board’s meetings.
One North Carolina observer praised the police chief for refusing to let officers be used as political muscle:
Chief Watson’s letter draws a line every public official should understand: A board chair’s demand does not automatically give police lawful grounds to remove, detain or arrest a citizen.
Watson said officers remain responsible for independently deciding whether law-enforcement action is legally justified. The department will still respond to calls for assistance at board meetings, but it will evaluate each situation under the law instead of serving as standing off-duty security.
The decision does not affect approved off-duty assignments at school sporting events and other school activities in Troutman.
The Iredell-Statesville Schools website confirms that the Oct. 12 board meeting was held at the Career Academy and Technical School in Troutman.
The district’s public rules say comments are welcome at regular board meetings and give each speaker three minutes after signing up before the session.
Those rules allow the board to enforce time limits and maintain order. They do not turn police officers into personal bouncers for officials who would rather not hear a taxpayer quote material found in a district library.
The district also publishes meeting schedules, agendas, policy links and recordings for public review. That promise of transparency rings hollow if the public may discuss controversial library material only in language comfortable enough for the people who approved it.
The fight does not end with one book. A parents’ advocacy group pointed readers toward the legal loophole it says allows obscene material into school libraries and offered tactics for challenging it:
Parents: here's the loophole that lets these books into school libraries in the first place, and how to fight ithttps://t.co/wegSeyORid
— Courage Is A Habit (@CourageHabit) October 18, 2026
This is the question the board could never answer: If the words were too obscene for adults at a public meeting, why were they appropriate for students in a public school?
The book is now gone, and the police department has refused to keep participating under the same arrangement. The board lost both the book and the officers it relied on to remove the man who read from it.
Amanchukwu forced the adults in charge to confront the material they had placed within reach of children. They removed the pastor, but they could not remove the contradiction.
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