More than a hundred residents descended on City Hall last week for an intense public comment session, demanding that local elected officials take action after 52-year-old\u00a0Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who had been in the country for 35 years, was killed by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents during a traffic stop July 7 in Magnolia Park.<\/p>\n
In response, Whitmire chided some residents\u2019 usage of foul language and asked for council members\u2019 help in maintaining decorum.<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently, that didn\u2019t work,\u201d Whitmire said after the chamber was cleared Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Only about a dozen speakers showed up Tuesday to speak about ICE, but they dominated the end of the proceedings, erupting into chants of \u201cJustice for Lorenzo;\u201d \u201cMayor Whitmire haven\u2019t you heard, the people have the final word;\u201d \u201cDo your job;\u201d and \u201cICE out of Houston.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some who stood up on the padded City Hall chamber seats to give impassioned speeches were removed. All protesters eventually were escorted out by police.<\/p>\n
Two people were detained, one of whom was dragged out of the chamber by officers and handcuffed in the hallway. Neither will face charges, Whitmire said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
After the chamber cleared, the mayor told the audience that he understood the emotion the protestors were feeling.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, the purpose of some was to disrupt it, shut it down. They weren’t successful. We were patient,\u201d Whitmire said, continuing, \u201cIf we all will be respectful, it will be much more respectful of (Salgado\u2019s) family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a hundred residents descended on City Hall last week for an intense public comment session, demanding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-381568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}