Modesto, Ceres silence Zoom after hate speech comments at council meetings
Hate came to the Modesto and Ceres city council meetings last week via Zoom. Modesto Mayor Sue Zwahlen stopped public comment over Zoom after three...
Hate came to the Modesto and Ceres city council meetings last week via Zoom. Modesto Mayor Sue Zwahlen stopped public comment over Zoom after three men had spoken. Ceres Mayor Javier Lopez ended public comment after two men had spoken. The comments were racist, including the use of the n-word, anti-Semitic and bigoted. Both cities allowed in-person public comment at the meetings. Zwahlen warned each speaker several times before directing a city official to remove them one by one from Zoom. The mayor then closed public comment over Zoom and the council took a 10-minute break.