{"id":197399,"date":"2026-02-28T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:58:42","slug":"obscene-images-racist-slurs-disrupt-cal-city-council-meeting-after-zoom-feed-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197399\/","title":{"rendered":"Obscene images, racist slurs disrupt Cal City Council meeting after Zoom feed hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Obscene images and racist language interrupted a California City Council meeting Tuesday night after the meeting\u2019s Zoom feed was hacked.<\/p>\n<p>The city took a 10-minute recess after the \u201cZoombombing,\u201d which happened at the beginning of the meeting. The graphic images and slurs shown during the disruption were not aired.<\/p>\n<p>California City Mayor Marquette Hawkins called the incident \u201ca very disgusting display of ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins said a hack has happened before during a council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>California City Mayor Marquette Hawkins said the city is investigating what happened and taking steps to prevent it from happening again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIgnorance never sleeps. A wise person once told me that. Somebody smarter than me. So we just have to continue to be vigilant and diligent about these kinds of things. We\u2019re taking measures and steps to make sure that people aren\u2019t exposed to disgusting things,\u201d Hawkins said.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>He said California City will no longer use Zoom for its City Council meetings and will instead use Webex, which he said would allow participants to speak without seeing screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Obscene images and racist language interrupted a California City Council meeting Tuesday night after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-197399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}