A Worcester City Council meeting and a budget hearing scheduled for Tuesday will both be held over Zoom, the city manager said.
Citing “public safety concerns,” Worcester’s city manager announced that City Hall will close to the public at 5 p.m. Tuesday and that government meetings scheduled for that night will be held exclusively over Zoom.
The move comes after a weekend that saw multiple protests over the arrest of a Worcester mother by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers last week and Worcester police’s arrests of two people present during the ICE operation.
On Thursday, May 8, ICE agents arrested a Worcester woman originally from Brazil. Neighbors and other Worcester residents including City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj formed what Haxhiaj called a “human ring” around the woman as ICE agents closed in…