Several Charleston-area residents spoke out Tuesday at a city council meeting on the municipality’s controversial First Amendment Ordinance that council passed in July 2021.
“Whether you call it peacekeeping or policing, the result is the same,” said one West Ashley resident Tuesday. “Permits for 25 people, 15-foot buffer zones and authorized arrests at peaceful protests directly limit free speech.”
Council members did not directly respond to any criticisms or demands made by the citizens during the meeting, per Mayor William Cogswell’s “rules of decorum.”…