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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 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.

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.

"Just so you know, you gotta follow the rules, Anthony! You gotta follow the rules. You didn't follow the rules." @joannesimonbk52.bsky.social addressing District Leader Anthony Beckford, who was presiding over the meeting.

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.

Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodnyse Bichotte Hermelyn did not show her face at the meeting, even though party leaders devoted the meeting to pushing through her power grab agenda.

A shocking exchange during which Renee Collymore insulted Akel Williams from the stage using the word "plantation."

Williams seemed genuinely horrified, shocked, and hurt by Collymore's "plantation" comment. That's District Leader Shaquana Boykin, another reformer, leading Williams away at the end.