A Durham resident facing a two-year ban from Durham City Hall will regain access to the building next week—roughly two years earlier than expected—after a Monday appeal hearing resulted in the restriction being lifted.
Amanda Wallace was banned from city hall in December after disrupting the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected council member Matt Kopac. From her seat, Wallace spent several minutes loudly criticizing both Kopac and the judge administering the oath before a police officer escorted her out of the chambers. Kopac was subsequently sworn in.
City Manager Bo Ferguson, who independently made the calls both to impose and lift the ban, told the INDY last month that the measure had nothing to do with the words Wallace uttered—he didn’t even remember what Wallace had said, he said—but rather with the fact that her conduct had interfered with the transfer of power…