A hot microphone moment at Tuesday’s Sacramento City Council meeting is exploding into anger directed against the two caught in the act: Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes and Mayor Kevin McCarty, who were seemingly discussing how to ban people from a public meeting.
But people too often forget to take a step back and examine the moment in context. The hot mic moment didn’t capture an attempt to remove people from their public chambers. Rather, it was a discussion of protocol to remove a single audience member who was being disruptive and shouting down other members of the public who had the right to come there to speak.
Now, the moment has gone viral on local social media sites, accompanied by some untenable threats and abuse being hurled at Talamantes and McCarty…