JustPoliceVideos | Protesters Shut Down Michigan Board of Commissioners Meeting @JustPoliceVideos | Uploaded June 2018 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A group of about 100 people commandeered Kent County's commission meeting Thursday morning, demanding an end to the county's contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Minutes into the public comment portion of Kent County Board of Commissioners meeting, Karla Barberi, a volunteer organizer with Movimiento Cosecha GR, interrupted a person speaking on another subject.
"Do you mind if I interrupt you?" she said. "We have here a bigger issue."
Jim Saalfeld, board of commissioners chairmen, called for deputies to remove Barberi after she refused to sit down. She wasn't removed.
A group of roughly 10 protesters then stormed the center of the commission floor with an anti-contract banner. As they did, Saalfeld suspended the meeting. He and most commissioners exited through the back.
Protesters intended to address the board about how the ICE contract with the Kent County Jail has separated families in the county.
The contract, signed in 2012 and renewed in late 2017, allows the jail to charge ICE for each day it holds a person with a detainment request.
The contract also allows ICE detainments for up to three days, rather than the standard two.
The protesters demanded commissioners back out of the contract.
For around 40 minutes, protesters continued to address a row of nearly empty commissioner seats.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A group of about 100 people commandeered Kent County's commission meeting Thursday morning, demanding an end to the county's contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Minutes into the public comment portion of Kent County Board of Commissioners meeting, Karla Barberi, a volunteer organizer with Movimiento Cosecha GR, interrupted a person speaking on another subject.
"Do you mind if I interrupt you?" she said. "We have here a bigger issue."
Jim Saalfeld, board of commissioners chairmen, called for deputies to remove Barberi after she refused to sit down. She wasn't removed.
A group of roughly 10 protesters then stormed the center of the commission floor with an anti-contract banner. As they did, Saalfeld suspended the meeting. He and most commissioners exited through the back.
Protesters intended to address the board about how the ICE contract with the Kent County Jail has separated families in the county.
The contract, signed in 2012 and renewed in late 2017, allows the jail to charge ICE for each day it holds a person with a detainment request.
The contract also allows ICE detainments for up to three days, rather than the standard two.
The protesters demanded commissioners back out of the contract.
For around 40 minutes, protesters continued to address a row of nearly empty commissioner seats.
