TULSA, Okla. — Four years later, a former Tulsa teacher is found not guilty in the misdemeanor trial stemming from her arrest at the 2020 Trump rally.
Sheila Buck taught for 30 years—many of those, she says, in North Tulsa. She testified she wore a George Floyd “I can’t breathe” t-shirt to the rally because she wanted to take a stand for students after witnessing inequalities in North Tulsa.
Buck was charged with obstructing an officer after refusing to leave a fenced-off area outside the BOK Center for the event. She told the officer that she had a ticket, but the officer told her that event staff did not want her there.
That officer, Matt Parker, testified for the prosecution, and jurors watched his body camera footage from that day, which was over an hour long. It showed the moments leading to her arrest to her trip to jail.
The …