Anti-Israel protesters had to be removed from a city council meeting in Santa Cruz by police after they threw things at council members, hurled insults, and even broke a window in the chamber. The problem? The council declined to call specifically for a ceasefire in Israel.
These people acted out like spoiled children throwing a tantrum because they didn’t get their way. The meeting dragged on for a reported ten hours because these lunatics wouldn’t let it go and were determined to be a problem for everyone.
Lookout Santa Cruz reports:
A broken window, effigies and expletives: Inside the 10-hour Santa Cruz City Council debate over a cease-fire resolutionThe Santa Cruz City Council rejected a proposed resolution calling for cease-fire between Israel and Hamas early Wednesday after 10 hours of public comment inside council chambers and demonstrations outside city hall. Instead, the city council voted 5-1 to adopt an alternate resolution, introduced by Councilmember Scott Newsome, that called for peace but dropped all references to a cease-fire.The discussion began at 5 p.m. Tuesday and lasted until around 3 a.m. Wednesday, when the city council voted 5-2 to turn down the original resolution, written by Councilmembers Sonja Brunner and Sandy Brown (only the authors supported the resolution).After almost half a full day’s worth of continuous, impassioned testimony from the public, the city council took the vote to turn down the original cease-fire resolution without a word of explanation. This launched a loud and somewhat violent protest from the already rambunctious crowd inside and outside city hall. Many in the audience who supported the original cease-fire language rushed to the front of the room and hurled roaring expletives, signs and placards, and bloody, bandaged effigies at the city councilmembers. Protesters outside shattered a panel of a council chamber window, directly behind City Clerk Bonnie Bush.Mayor Fred Keeley, who had threatened multiple times throughout the evening to clear the chambers, then ordered police officers to do just that, which he estimated took “about 25 to 30 minutes.”
You can’t see the protesters in this video, but you can hear them. The tweet notes that the date on the video is wrong, so ignore it.
This is the sort of commentary that people were forced to listen to at the meeting.
Here’s a local video report:
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently patted themselves on the back for voting in favor of a ceasefire. We will see this happen in more blue cities. Virtue signaling, which is all this is, is very important to the left.
Featured image via Twitter video.
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