Berkeley, CA – Multiple unidentified public commenters interrupted Tuesday’s special city council meeting on Zoom and engaged in racist hate speech.
Among other racist and antisemitic statements, the disrupters used racial slurs and stated that “the Jews did 9/11.”
At the Berkeley City Council meeting, several Zoom accounts, one of which was named “Dylann Roof,” after the white supremacist gunman who murdered nine Black parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, targeted the remote public comment period for a zoning board appeal.
Each speaker was cut off within a few seconds, but not before delivering racial slurs and hateful messages about Jews. Mayor Jesse Arreguín noted the trend of Zoom attacks as he condemned the remarks and apologized to those who heard them.
