Chris Kluwe, a former NFL player, was dismissed following his arrest for protesting a plaque at the Huntington Beach library that featured the ‘MAGA’ slogan

In Huntington Beach, California, former NFL player Chris Kluwe lost his position as a high school football coach after being arrested at a city council meeting.

Chris Kluwe, who previously played as a punter for the Minnesota Vikings and resides in Huntington Beach, was taken into custody for protesting against a plaque approved by the Huntington Beach City Council to be installed at the public library.

The plaque, created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the public library, contains the phrase “Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous,” which seems to reference President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again motto.

“We want to honor the library. We want there to be a plaque, but we don’t want MAGA on it because the library isn’t supposed to be political,” Kluwe told our sister station, ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles.

Kluwe delivered an impassioned speech at the meeting during public comments, likening the MAGA movement to Nazism.

At the end of his speech, Kluwe said he would engage in what he described as “the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience.”

Kluwe then walked up toward councilmembers and placed his hands behind his back, falling to the floor as multiple police officers arrested him. Police carried him out of the meeting.

Now, Kluwe says Edison High School has fired him from his job as a freshman football coach.

Kluwe told the Orange County Register that the school said there was too much attention on him, so they had to let him go.

Edison High has not commented on his firing.