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    Nicholas Goldberg: Jeering, screaming and upending the LA City Council is arrogant, irresponsible and ineffective

    I shouldn’t have to say this, but it is presumptuous and irresponsible to disrupt and obstruct the Los Angeles City Council in an effort to get your way. Coming to council meetings just to shout, jeer and drown out the proceedings is arrogant and wrong. Yet that’s what’s been happening at City Council meetings since the leak of a taped conversation among council members that included racist ...
    by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times Nov 02, 2022 3 minutes
    A protester is placed in handcuffs after refusing a Los Angeles Police Department order to leave a Los Angeles City Council meeting in 2019..

    I shouldn’t have to say this, but it is presumptuous and irresponsible to disrupt and obstruct the Los Angeles City Council in an effort to get your way.

    Coming to council meetings just to shout, jeer and drown out the proceedings is arrogant and wrong.

    Yet that’s what’s been happening at City Council meetings since the leak of a taped conversation among council members that included racist comments and political scheming as protesters have crowded the council chamber, loudly demanding the resignation of those implicated by the recording.

    I understand that people are angry.

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