A white supremacist who was jailed for sharing footage of the March 15 terror attack, is standing for the board at one of Christchurch’s most multicultural schools. Philip Arps was sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment in 2019 after he sent a video of the mosque killings to 30 people and asked a friend to modify it by adding cross-hairs and a “kill count”. He is one of nine people contesting five parent trustee roles at Te Aratai College, which is 850m from Linwood Islamic Centre where worshippers were killed and injured in a mass terror shooting on March 15, 2019. Arps’ attempt to join the school board has prompted calls for the rules to be changed, as they provide “no safeguards against extremist parents”. In 2016, Arps delivered a severed pig’s head to Masjid An-Nur (Al-Noor mosque). Recently he has aligned himself with the anti-vaccine mandate movement. He served six months in jail for sharing the mosque attack footage. He was also banned from Christchurch’s two mosques and from having contact with all Muslims. However, he is eligible to stand as a school board member as his prison sentence was under two years.
via stuff.no.nz: White supremacist formerly jailed for sharing terror attack footage, standing for board at multicultural Christchurch school