More than a dozen people voiced their displeasure to the Beverly Hills City Council regarding the City Prosecutor’s decision to file misdemeanor charges against 25 protestors. The comments came on Sept. 15, during both the City Council Study Session and Regular Meeting.
The non-agendized comments took the form of video and phone calls, as well as letters. At issue are protests that took place in the City on June 26. A group of 25 protestors were arrested, and later charged for violating the City’s Emergency Ordinance. Most of those speaking out before the Council indenitifed themselves as Persian and Jewish, and took exception to comments in documents filed by police that invoked the Holocaust and the Iranian Revolution.
