Pro-Palestinian demonstrators threatened the mayor and disrupted a city council meeting in California on Tuesday as it grew heated over a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The city council of Santa Ana near Los Angeles ultimately did not approve the controversial resolution, which called for a permanent ceasefire between Hamas and Israel and an end to “Israeli apartheid.”
On October 7, Hamas launched deadly terrorist attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, including women and children. Israel has responded with airstrikes and a ground offensive.
During the city council meeting’s two hours of public comment, pro-Palestinian demonstrators shouted thinly veiled threats at Mayor Valerie Amezcua, a Democrat.
“Don’t worry, we’ll see you in the street!” a woman called out as she left the meeting.
“Chief, did you get that chief? And the exact time and everything?” the mayor said.
“So when you make accusations like, ‘See you on the street,’ that’s a threat to me as the mayor, and I’ve already had multiple death threats,” Amezcua continued, adding that even threats on social media will result in a visit from the police.
“No one up here deserves to receive any type of threats or get assaulted,” Amezcua said.
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At one point, Amezcua said she would not be supporting the ceasefire resolution, prompting a loud outcry from the pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
“I’m not supporting this tonight. That is not my job as the mayor whether you like it or not,” the mayor said.
Amezcua asked security to escort out one disruptive man.
“If they don’t sit down and be quiet, this meeting is over,” she said. “I am the chairperson, and let me speak. If we cannot calm down, this meeting is over.”
At one point, the pro-Palestinian demonstrators yelled “Ceasefire now!” and “f*** the mayor!” causing the meeting to grind to a halt yet again.
Some demonstrators also held signs reading “Ceasefire Now” and interrupted speakers by shouting, some arguing in favor of Hamas’ attack.
One pro-Palestinian speaker said the “Israeli Zionist regime is fascist, racist.”
“The Zionists will kill anyone who stands in their way, anyone, even their own people,” the man said. “Anyone who does not support the ceasefire in Gaza, who stands here before me today, I will remember you, and you will never work in this city ever again.”
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Another man appeared to justify the Hamas attacks.
“We’ve been sleeping for the past 76 years. When somebody hits them in their guts, then they’re crying, oh my god, my children, my children,” the man said.
Yet another speaker called Israel a “genocidal regime” that is “hellbent” on killing Palestinians.
Councilmember Thai Viet Phan said, “We are not going to solve a war in the Middle East here in Santa Ana.”
