“I’m glad to be out, but this is an inconvenience, really. It’s not really deterring me from speaking out or, I guess, clapping.”
A physics teacher in Emporia, Kansas clapped for a speaker opposing a hyperscale datacenter rezoning. Four officers carried him out and charged him with disorderly conduct. Over 30 residents signed up to speak and the commission voted 5-0 to approve anyway, so the whole hearing was theater. When clapping is the thing that gets policed, the decision was made before the meeting started.