Columbia Heights school board member to keep seat after Facebook flap

Grant Nichols, a member of the Columbia Heights school board, will remain in his seat after the school board voted Tuesday on whether to remove him for anti-Muslim comments that he allegedly put on social media.

Emotions ran high at a special meeting held to address the comments. Columbia Heights students, faculty members and parents voiced their concern over the comment — posted using Nichols’ Facebook account on a Star Tribune story shared on Facebook — saying that Muslims are unsanitary and do not clean up after themselves.

Nichols has denied that he wrote the comment, which has since been deleted. He was not present at Tuesday’s meeting.

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