“Officers approached Claridge, who declined to leave and told them: ‘Drag me out.’ Four officers duly hoisted the teacher off the floor and carried him outside.”
A physics teacher in Emporia, Kansas clapped at a zoning hearing and got booked for disorderly conduct. Four cops carried him out of a public meeting about a public land use decision. The commission then approved the datacenter 5-0. The arrest was never about order in the room. It was about making the room quiet enough to rubber-stamp the thing.