404 MediaDarren Blanchard went a few seconds over his three minute time limit and found himself in handcuffs.
https://www.404media.co/farmer-arrested-for-speaking-too-long-at-datacenter-town-hall-vows-to-fight/
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@404mediaco Bizarre behaviour. The normal approach is simply to press the red button that disconnects the speaker's microphone when they go over time.
(And in fact when I had the red button I never felt the need to use it. Either the people going over time in public meetings were saying interesting things, in which case why not let them continue[#], or they were saying boring things, in which case asking them to shut up generally worked.)
([#] Except for quasi-judicial things like planning hearings where letting one side speak longer than the other risks legal challenges.)
obscurestar@TimWardCam @404mediaco I looked up some videos of the arrest and people were outraged by it. They started his time when he got up to speak but he dropped his papers and needed to collect them. He asked, 'please don't start my time until I've started speaking'. There were then points where people were talking over him and applause.
He goes over by about 20 seconds (including having to repeat because they were shouting at him) cops are on him by 38 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPF3rTT0mY
He goes over by about 20 seconds (including having to repeat because they were shouting at him) cops are on him by 38 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPF3rTT0mY
