Racist, antisemitic outburst targets Raleigh City Council member in Zoom meeting

Raleigh's Citizen Advisory Councils are changing their policies after several people hijacked a neighborhood meeting, hurling racist and antisemitic slurs at city councilors.
Posted 4/25/2024, 8:46:23 PM Updated 4/26/2024, 1:26:59 PM

PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY CASE.

THE HISTORIC ARGUMENTS

PRESENTED TO JUSTICE IS TODAY.

WELL, HE'S RECENTLY REINSTATED

CITIZENS ADVISORY COUNCILS ARE

CHANGING THEIR POLICIES AFTER

PEOPLE SPEWED RACIAL SLURS

AFTER THE HIJACKED A

NEIGHBORHOOD ZOOM MEETING OF

THE PRIMARY. TARGET IS OR HATE

WAS A BLACK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER

WRAL'S MATT TALHELM TALK TO

THE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS

CHAIRMAN ABOUT THIS DISRUPTION.

>> THAT DERAILED THE MEETING

>> ALL RIGHT, FOLKS GO ONLINE

AND

>> HERE IN PERSON, LARRY HEALTH

AND HAS BECOME USED TO RUNNING

HYBRID MEETINGS AT THE MIDTOWN

CAC LIKE THIS ONE IN MARCH.

BUT NOTHING PREPARED HIM FOR

THE GROUP'S MOST RECENT

MEETINGS. THE WORST OF IT

MANKIND THAT YOU COULD POSSIBLY

EXPECT ABOUT. A DOZEN NEIGHBORS

ATTENDED IN PERSON HERE AT

MILLBROOK EXCHANGE. OTHERS

JOINED ON ZOOM, INCLUDING SOME

NEW PEOPLE WHO ONLY DISPLAYED

SCREEN NAMES BUT KEPT THEIR

CAMERAS OFF NAMES OF THE PEOPLE

ONLINE WERE NAMES LIKE MORDECAI

LEVI JUDY STRAW YEAR. THE

ACRONYM FOR TO DESTROY OR

HEALTH AND SAYS ABOUT AN HOUR

INTO THE MEETING, THE GROUP

TOOK CONTROL HURLING RACIAL

SLURS, INCLUDING THE N WORD

TOWARD CITY COUNCIL MEMBER MARY

BLACK, WHO ALSO JOINED ON ZOOM.

THEY JUST UNMUTED THEMSELVES

AND KEPT GOING ALL OF THE 5

THAT JOINED US JUST STARTED.

HURLING RACIAL SLURS AT MARY

AD.

>> EVERY MINER YOU CAN THINK OF

AND SAYING THE MOST VILE

THINGS. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER

CHRISTINA JONES WAS ALSO ON THE

ZOOM. SHE'S NOW WORKING WITH

THE RALLY CAC TO ADDRESS THIS

ISSUE. IN A STATEMENT, THE

CHAIRMAN OF THE CAC SAYS WE

WILL BE IMPLEMENTING STRONGER

POLICIES ON MANAGING MEETINGS

AND DEALING QUICKLY AND

EFFECTIVELY WITH DISRUPTIVE

BEHAVIOR. WE HAVE 0 TOLERANCE

FOR THESE DESPICABLE ACTIONS

AND HATE LANGUAGE AND WILL WORK

TO ENSURE IT DOES NOT HAPPEN

AGAIN WITH LEADERSHIP IN PLACE

THAT CAN AND THE CONCERNS THAT

HAPPENED. I THINK WE CAN COME

AND MAKE A WELCOMING PLACE FOR

EVERYONE. JONES SAYS SHE'S

PUTTING TOGETHER A MEETING FOR

NEXT WEEK WITH THE CITY STAFF

AND THE CAC CHAIR. SHE HOPES TO

HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR

CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER HERE.

>> IN LATE MAY, MATT TALHELM,

WRAL NEWS, RALEIGH. SO

UPSETTING THE MIDTOWN CAC

CHAIRMAN TELLS WRAL HE'S NOW