Woman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock Cameras
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council.’
Mia Heider attended her first public city council meeting in Springfield, Missouri, to voice her opposition to the city's use of Flock cameras. As she spoke at the podium during the public comment period, she was arrested and handcuffed by a police officer. Heider had held up her middle fingers while continuing to speak about the cameras being an invasion of privacy.
The mayor, Jeff Schrag, cut her mic and ordered her to leave the room. The council subsequently voted to send a resolution to a committee, preventing public comment on the matter. Heider was one of two individuals arrested during the meeting where tensions rose among the crowd.
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