An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long

An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

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"Politicians yet again forget that things like public comment and protest are the compromise to the older (and arguably better) form of dissent: Tar & Feather, and Guillotine"

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TESCREAL eugenicists and fascists cloud-capitalists knows no bound.
@404mediaco These police appear to be black-shirts.
@404mediaco Auditioning for ICE?
@404mediaco The Capital Police should have done that with Pam Bondi when she gave "non-responsive" answers. She intentionally wasted Congress' time to avoid oversight, which is her duty to support.

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Are they going to start arresting the men at academic conferences with "more of a comment than a question"?

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@404mediaco At this point I see nothing but intimidation and trying to make people cover in fear.
@404mediaco @petrillic free speech charged in 3min increments.

@404mediaco I wanted to check if this is a misleading headline.
Sadly paywalled. *sigh*
Not that I would be surprised if that was really all there is to it.

Addendum, what makes it sus:
"Police arrested him when [sic!] he went a few seconds over his time limit."
It says "when", not "because". The headline reads "for speaking too long". So the question is what else happened there.

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I was able to access it without email sign-up yesterday, but not today.

Here's the YT video of the meeting, it is cued to the time where he starts speaking [1:54:52] -

https://www.youtube.com/live/xLPF3rTT0mY?&t=6892

#DataCenters

City of Claremore City Council Meeting 2-17-26 6:00pm

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Arrest made during heated Claremore meeting over proposed data center

Claremore police arrested a man during a heated meeting about a proposed data center as residents raised concerns over water use and infrastructure.

Newson6.com

@404mediaco As somebody who spent a lot of 2025 speaking out at town halls and other meetings just like this, this could have been me.

It could be you.

And the datacenter industrialist, on his defense, said "we didn't make the rules" ...

and that destimony was incomplete so it should be dropped from the proceedings' notes.

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