Speaker at city council meeting goes long, cops shut her up with cuffs

The Riverside (Calif.) City Council takes their agenda seriously. When speaker Karen Wright exceeded her allotted three minutes of talking time, the 60-year-old was handcuffed and charged with disrupting a public meeting. In this video, an already-cuffed Wright shouts that she "physically can't get up" without using her hands and someone attending the meeting can be heard yelling "Stop!" Mayor Ron Loveridge said that long-winded speakers frequently receive a warning, but he didn't think any had been handcuffed in the 32 years he'd been in office. "She’s not obviously a security threat," Loveridge said. "That is a judgment the police officers made." [Source]

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