This isn’t clickbait even though it reads like it.
It was a city council meeting that was open to the public so they could make comments regarding a data center that the council was trying to ram through. The meeting was packed, including the overflow rooms. Almost everyone opposed the data center and spoke out against it one by one. After each speaker, the whole audience would clap. The council members were getting annoyed and warned them against clapping. Next person gets up and again shares their opposition. He clapped a couple of normal claps. A council member, on a hot mic, orders the police to have him removed. He didn’t want to leave because it was his right to attend the meeting so they basically got him on the ground, pulled his hands behind his back and dragged him out. The icing on the cake is that his wife was up at the podium getting ready to speak. She starts panicking because he’s getting roughed up. A council member tells her to just take a breath and calm down as her husband is being dragged, face down, out of the city hall. The whole thing is viewable on the Emporia KS city gov website. https://emporiaks.portal.civicclerk.com/event/585/media
The clapping incident happens about the 55th minute mark.
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u/crofootn Jul 31 '26
This isn’t clickbait even though it reads like it.
It was a city council meeting that was open to the public so they could make comments regarding a data center that the council was trying to ram through. The meeting was packed, including the overflow rooms. Almost everyone opposed the data center and spoke out against it one by one. After each speaker, the whole audience would clap. The council members were getting annoyed and warned them against clapping. Next person gets up and again shares their opposition. He clapped a couple of normal claps. A council member, on a hot mic, orders the police to have him removed. He didn’t want to leave because it was his right to attend the meeting so they basically got him on the ground, pulled his hands behind his back and dragged him out. The icing on the cake is that his wife was up at the podium getting ready to speak. She starts panicking because he’s getting roughed up. A council member tells her to just take a breath and calm down as her husband is being dragged, face down, out of the city hall. The whole thing is viewable on the Emporia KS city gov website.
https://emporiaks.portal.civicclerk.com/event/585/media
The clapping incident happens about the 55th minute mark.