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The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum may soon find itself in legal troubles after security at the museum allegedly forced a group of students to remove their pro-life hats.

A group of students came to visit the museum last month while they were in D.C. to take part in the Jan. 20 March for Life Rally, an attorney told WYFF-TV.

The 12 students and chaperones from Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School in Greenville, South Carolina, were reportedly stopped by a museum security guard, who told them the museum was a “neutral zone.”

The attorney — from the American Center of Law and Justice — said that parents are now planning on taking legal action against the museum.

“They should be allowed to wear the hats that they were wearing and to be able to express themselves,” one parent, Nora Luz Kriegel, told WYFF. “And I felt it was very wrong that this person harassed them.”

According to WYFF, Kriegel has two children currently attending Our Lady of the Rosary — a school located in Greenville County of South Carolina.

Her children did not attend the pro-life rally in D.C., but Kriegel still feels the students who were kicked out of the museum should have been “treated with respect” as they were “standing up for human life. For the most innocent human life,” WYFF reported.

“I just don’t understand at all in my being how anybody could look at something that says ‘pro-life’ and say that that is something that is offensive to them in any way, shape or form,” Kriegel told WYFF.

A spokesperson from the National Air and Space Museum responded to the incident, telling WYFF that it is routine protocol to ask visitors to remove hats and clothing that may violate museum policy.

The museum added that they “provided immediate training to prevent a re-occurrence of this kind of incident, and have determined steps to ensure this does not happen again.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/smithsonian-museum-kicks-students-hats-attorney/