Mia Hyder had never attended a public meeting before when she showed up to the city council meeting in Springfield, Missouri. After briefly speaking at a podium during a public comment period, she was arrested and dragged away in handcuffs.
“Hello, my name is Mylie Hyder. I’m a Springfield, Missouri constituent, and I’m here to oppose the usage of ALPR cameras, most commonly made by Flock Safety. These cameras are not just surveillance,” Hyder started.
“I’m sorry ma’am,” Springfield Mayor Jeff Schrag said. Her mic was cut. A cop approached her at the podium.
Hyder held up both of her middle fingers while continuing to speak: “They are an invasion of our privacy,” she said.
The cop said, “You’re under arrest,” grabbed her arms, and pulled her out of the room. “I can do this all night. I get paid by the hour,” the cop added.
City council has acted like this everywhere I’ve lived (and I’ve moved around quite a bit). Main reason I have no faith in reforming from within. Even when there’s barely anything on the line in terms of power or bribes politicians will throw their constituents under the bus 8/10 times. I don’t think we can outsource the stewardship of our communities to politicians even on the local level. People need to be directly involved in the projects that pertain to them.
Take the guy who owns five gas stations and cross him with a reddit mod/HOA president. Clone him five times. That’s the town council.
They’ll sell people out for a free lunch, they are absolute bottom feeding scum
The cop guaranteed this gets thrown out by putting that they flipped off the mayor on the ticket. Clear 1st Amendment issue that’s been settled by the USSC
Next meeting show up with your second amendment rights, or shut the fuck up. They don’t give a fuck what you have to say.
That’s not a solution unless it’s ur final stand.
Constituent showing up w a gun, likely would not get in through the door. If they did make it in, having a firearm at city council meeting would put a target on your back 100%.
So unless it’s ur last stand that’s just dumb af advice.
I’m not saying to go alone. Go as a militia.
And no one did anything and fascism took over, the end. Why are we still talking about the USA?
You could have not talked about it.
Nah. US Citizens have got all there guns prepped for just this. There all going to stand up and stop the tyranny… Uh… Annnnny minute now…
