With a large crowd looking on, Utah Highway Patrol troopers removed a man from a Utah Senate committee hearing earlier this month.
The incident occurred in Salt Lake City, Utah, at a state Senate committee hearing on legislation that would prohibit businesses and certain government entities from requiring vaccine passports. Three persons were arrested by police in Utah after openly opposing the concept of needing “vaccine passports” during a Senate committee, including one man who was arrested was led away in handcuffs for nothing more than wearing a “We The People” shirt.
Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee Chair Dan McCay were forced to call a recess as the crowd of citizens voiced their displeasure for more COVID-19 mandates. Trying to restore some inkling of order, McCay warned the crowd that no signs or stickers supporting House Bill 60 would be allowed. That decision appeared to make the whole situation worse.
Daine Anderson, one of the people at the meeting recalled the incident.
Anderson said:
“They said you have to take everything off that’s political. Your stickers, your sign, we don’t allow waving. We’re going, ‘Tyranny. Welcome to Australia’. There was a lot of people in there. He took off his sticker; he didn’t take his shirt off, and they had the Highway Patrol come and take him out, saying he was disrupting the meeting. It was in recess. He wasn’t disrupting.”
Watching the man being arrested, the crowd around McCay grew even more agitated, yelling, “You guys should be ashamed of yourself. You swore an oath to us, not the government.”
According to KSTU-TV:
A man was taken to a nearby elevator and placed on the ground in handcuffs. He was then picked up by troopers by his arms and legs and taken into the elevator. The Utah Highway Patrol later said the man was cited for disrupting a public meeting and released.
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Sources: Wnd, Fox13now, Thefederalistpapers