An Arizona woman was arrested in front of her 10-year-old daughter after she seemingly offended the town mayor when she began criticizing city officials during a city council meeting last week.

Rebekah Massie took to the stand to voicing her opposition to a renewal of a city attorney’s contract which would include a salary raise. Massie, furious about the pay increase, began her attack by claiming that the official previously violated the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Arizona constitution, and the state bar’s rules of professional conduct.

As Massie was just getting her attack rolling by bringing up the multiple public records requests that she made in regards to other issues, she was abruptly cut off by Suprise Mayor Skip Hall. He pointed her to the council’s preposterous rules stating that oral communication is not permitted to “lodge charges or complains against any employee of the City to members of the body”.

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“This is the public meeting forum you agree to when you speak.” Hall told the woman, to which she responded “That’s all fine, well, and good – but that’s a violation of my First Amendment rights.” […]