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The Central Oregon Diversity Project has called for the resignation of Republican state Representative Vikki Breese-Iverson over a photo of her son giving a Nazi salute as he poses near a World War II German plane.
The Diversity Project said in a Facebook post on Saturday that it demanded Breese-Iverson’s immediate resignation over the photo posted on social media, KTVZ-TV reported. The son, whose name and age have not been released, was on a school trip in Madras, Oregon, when the photo was taken.
The group, which works to provide solidarity and opportunity for black, Native, Hispanic, Asian and all people of color in central Oregon, also alleged that Crook County school officials “avoided handing over discipline.” The group said they “have reason to believe that the student has not been punished because of his mother and ‘who’ she is.”
The son of Oregon Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson was seen giving a Nazi salute near a World War II German plane while on a school trip. The Central Oregon Diversity Project has called for the resignation of the GOP House leader.
Breese-Iverson, who lives in Prineville and is the House minority leader, posted an apology on Facebook “to anyone affected by this image” and criticized her son’s “extremely poor judgment.”
She said she and her husband had contacted school officials “about enforcing adequate consequences for his actions, both at school and at home.”
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Breese-Iverson’s post included a photo of her son’s handwritten apology, saying that posing for a photo a friend took and posted online was “a stupid mistake. I really get that now. Doing something bad right now without thinking can lead to suffering.”
During the Holocaust in the 1940s, six million Jews and people from other groups were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices.
Anti-Semitism increased in the US by 2022, researchers said in a report released in April.
