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Mike Hanson Arrested at Gonzales City Council Meeting
Mike Hanson was arrested and charged with disrupting a meeting and resisting arrest after exceeding a three-minute speaking limit at a Gonzales City Council meeting. Hanson was attempting to present claims regarding federal agencies like the DEA allegedly taking over local law enforcement operations. Despite an alleged prior agreement with the city attorney to speak for four minutes, police intervened, leading to an arrest that Hanson claims creates a chilling effect on local public discourse.
mike hanson· gonzales city council· first amendment· dea· law enforcement
00:07 A man arrested at a Gonzales City Council meeting is now speaking out. He's making claims that federal agencies are taking over local law enforcement operations That's right our Mike Jimenez joins us live in the studio with more on that, Mike Well that's right Chris and Amanda Mike Hanson was arrested after speaking over his three minute time limit Hanson was speaking to the city council about concerns that federal agencies were taking over law enforcement operations in Gonzales Time's up. That's what landed Mike Hanson behind bars after he spoke past the three minute time limit at Tuesday City Council meeting of Gonzalez He now faces disrupting a meeting and resisting arrest charges humiliating Anybody that's been to jail
00:50 very, very not nice. Some believe Hansen's First Amendment rights were violated when Hansen was making claims to City Council that federal agencies were taking over law enforcement operations. We've been seeing people around with black ski masks on different operations going on and we started finding out that We found out one night at City Council that the DEA was taking over our Police Department Hanson said he was part of a group of eight speaking at the meeting Prior to the meeting claims He made an agreement with the city attorney To speak longer in lieu of all eight speaking for three minutes. I reached out to the city attorney to verify his claims But are still waiting on their response
01:32 We had decided with the city attorney that myself and another fellow was just going to do about a four minute presentation. We had it all written out, we were getting... if you could see the tape I was going through it as fast as I could." Hanson said he was surprised no one stood up for him and his arrest may scare others into not speaking their voice at council meetings. comes a chilling effect to the next people that's gonna speak, you know they think they're going to get arrested for if they go over there three minutes. Now the video of Mike Hanson's arrest on YouTube has nearly 24 thousand views we have posted a video of the incident on our Facebook page take a look for yourself and tell us what do you think?