City council meetings anywhere can quickly be derailed by public comments, some of which can be rude, vulgar or discriminatory.
Take, for example, the Los Angeles City Council, a legislative body that helps govern one of America’s most important cities and which meets three times a week.
During those meetings, there are a “few speakers” who “routinely hurl racial slurs, antisemitic phrases or other forms of verbal abuse at city council members,” according to the Los Angeles Times .
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“They have attacked officials’ looks, their weight, clothes, sexual orientation and gender, curdling the proceedings on a regular basis,” LAT said…