For the second time in a row, people phoned into public comment during a Walnut Creek city council meeting spewing antisemitism.
"You really can't do a lot about that. You can give a warning, and you can cut off for things like vulgarity without warning, but there's a lot of latitude with freedom of speech," said Councilmember Kevin Wilk.He says many of them call right in a row and will often argue if they're interrupted.
Similar events have happened at a Board of Supervisors meeting in Sonoma County, as well as a city council meeting in Sacramento. They say over the past several years, antisemitism reports have exploded both in California and around the country."Those include everything from vandalism, harassment, to assault and murder," said Teresa Drenick of the Anti-Defamation League."How much do we want to allow these kinds of open mics on a remote level? Do we want to go back to pre-COVID days where people are just in-person?" Wilk said.
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