GREENSBORO — The City Council adopted a new procedure July 11 that allows officials to temporarily bar people who “intentionally disrupt the meetings or ridicule other speakers.”
Luis Medina sits in the audience during the council meeting at City Hall in Greensboro in July. Medina, a member of the Working Class & Houseless Organizing Alliance, speaks frequently at council meetings.
Del Stone speaks against the new rule to expel disruptive people from in-person council meetings at City Hall. Stone herself has been banned after a protest at the Oct. 3 meeting.
Luis Medina speaks against the new rule to expel disruptive people from in person council meetings at City Hall in the Katie Dorsett Council Chamber in Greensboro, N.C., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.
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Luis Medina sits in the audience during the council meeting at City Hall in Greensboro in July. Medina, a member of the Working Class & Houseless Organizing Alliance, speaks frequently at council meetings.
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A security officer stands in the rear of the council meeting at City Hall in the Katie Dorsett Council Chamber in Greensboro, N.C., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.
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Luis Medina sits in the audience during the council meeting at City Hall in the Katie Dorsett Council Chamber in Greensboro, N.C., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.
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Sharon Hightower explains why she voted against the new rule.
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Del Stone speaks against the new rule to expel disruptive people from in-person council meetings at City Hall. Stone herself has been banned after a protest at the Oct. 3 meeting.
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Luis Medina speaks against the new rule that allows the City Council expel disruptive people from in-person council meetings in the council chamber on July 11. He later was the first person banned from making in-person comments at council meetings after an outburst on Sept. 5.
New Greensboro City Council policy would ban "disruptive" residents from attending meetings in-person.
Luis Medina sits in the audience during the council meeting at City Hall in Greensboro in July. Medina, a member of the Working Class & Houseless Organizing Alliance, speaks frequently at council meetings.
Del Stone speaks against the new rule to expel disruptive people from in-person council meetings at City Hall. Stone herself has been banned after a protest at the Oct. 3 meeting.
