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This Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee meeting was an anti-democratic disgrace. Shame on the leaders of the party, who ignored legitimate questions from reformers, tried to get the cops to eject people, insulted dissenters, and pushed through Bichotte-Hermelyn's power grab. 📷🧵

The committee that makes up the Brooklyn Democratic Party held a chaotic meeting Wednesday to elect its leadership team using controversial new voting rules, as an appeals court deliberated on the legality of their actions mere blocks away. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-dem...

The meeting started hours late, after which party leaders repeatedly ignored questions about proxy votes and whether procedural rules had been followed while pushing through votes to validate Bichotte-Hermelyn's power grab. District Leader and reformer Akel Williams' expression kind of says it all.

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Assembly member @joannesimonbk52.bsky.social tore into the presiding officers, noting that among other things, a copy of the amendments considered had not been distributed five days before as required. I've never seen her so mad.

Several times during the meeting, Anthony Beckford asked for members of the audience to be removed. The cops weren't particularly happy about being involved. They did not end up removing anyone.