Yelling, accusations and demands for resignation: Frustration boils over during City Council meeting

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Tensions approached boiling points multiple times during Thursday's Pocatello City Council meeting.
By the time the meeting was adjourned, Councilman Roger Bray had been censured, Councilwoman Claudia Ortega had already left council chambers and several members of the audience were trying to calm others down.
A discussion before the vote for censuring Bray lasted nearly 40 minutes and included Ortega demanding Pocatello Police Chief Roger Schei's immediate resignation. The same discussion included several heated exchanges between Mayor Brian Blad and Ortega and Chris Stevens, as well as one brief exchange between Ortega and Pocatello Police Sgt. Akilah Lacey, who was in the audience.
Blad interacted with council members several times during the lengthy discussion but held his statement until just before opening the resolution to a vote. In that statement, he called the entire need for the discussion and the comments made "deplorable."
"Before we vote I just need to say a few words," Blad said. "Maybe I shouldn't say anything because it's difficult. I can't think of a worse thing to be discussing in city leadership right now than racial diversity."
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[@August84118]

Nowhere is perfect. Looking for problems only creates more division. I grew up in LA during the 60’s and 70’s. Things are way more out of control now. Back then people actually got along. You can’t even have reasonable discussions anymore. Good luck Pocatello, you’re in for a bumpy ride.

[@davidhedrick7226]

This whole board needs to move to Carpentersville!!!!!

[@judithmorganjudyteen]

Fiiiight

[@mrrockdaddy100]

😂😆

[@mrrockdaddy100]

Add Flint Michigan

[@donvirts4608]

You're first gonna have to solve bindergate.

[@ericknopf2109]

“I’m a public official, I’m not supposed to use social media to bash people, but I fully admit I’m going to do it anyway.”

[@Rittendaux]

😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@Rittendaux]

These are the type of people who make great neighbors 😂

[@jeremykoch76]

Ms Ortega should familiarize herself with the definition of "transient '

[@tylerrandall5119]

Who tf voted for Stevens?

[@NADIA-qk8uw]

Cold little hearts

[@ddave7026]

" if I'm offended .. by what he wrote .. why are my feelings not considered??" It's called growing up and letting it roll off you. I'm Mexican/ native SO FN WHAT!

[@eugenesant9015]

There's only supposed to be one wicked witch of the west.

[@pamela5568]

What a council meeting!

[@eugenesant9015]

This should be a series, on after the Kardashians.

[@jcw3195]

Passed through Pocatello thirty years ago, kept going because I wasn't looking for trouble with the locals.

[@moneyman431]

I only hear 2 people yelling

[@eugenesant9015]

Akilla thinks he's gonna be the new police chief.

[@eugenesant9015]

Now that recent affirmation action hire by ISU......was.......hilarious.....a coach Wanted for murder......ha ha ha..... Unbelievable.

[@potterj09]

Small-town petri dish power.

[@heatherrosebee]

Sooo did the chief resign??

[@phyllissweetpea4926]

I wonder who’s covid test that was?

[@hrearden6993]

The official feelings of a city.

[@eugenesant9015]

Wokatello.

[@NavigatorMother]

Is there there such a trait as evolutionary maturity, or perhaps it's just simple, profound emotional maturity, one of the most underrated human traits ever described? The final two speakers, both from black, racially diverse, backgrounds showed me how "diverse" is just another term that has come along to mess with our heads. I found it fascinating that the last speaker sees "different" = "exploitable" in terms of the race/colour power imbalance.

[@maggiehogland1891]

I appreciate the words the first council woman said and her respect for the First Nation. Thank you !

[@ClitLitter]

Steven’s eats rug furrr surreeeeeeeee

[@jakesarms8996]

Isn't Chobani yogurt in Idaho ?

[@ddave7026]

Just because he used the word "transient" , doesn't mean it involves a Race, it may involve budget and demographics. As a person of color. This doesn't offend me in the slightest. And as someone who's done ditch digging, and roughing for plumbing it is true they just come and go. I mean who gets offended at such things??

[@zanpsimer7685]

Passionate discussion generally moves us forward.

[@michelewallace8568]

Great job in Pocatello.

[@mzliz1249]

Lord, almost and hour? 😴💤

[@user-mo6pd4sj6j]

wow the mayor likes to twist everything and yell racism

[@eugenesant9015]

Definitely not enough minorities on that city council......better ship in some Detroiters.

[@TheNBAfan101]

Well we all know how backwards Idaho is 💀

[@charlottewyttle1578]

Barf

[@kathleenmiller2562]

Idaho is well known for white supremacy in the past. Its good they want to accept all kinds of people. People shouldn't be grouped into categories. Everyone is an individual.

[@GracieGirl24]

Idaho deserves better……vote out this mayor…then get rid of the rest

[@eugenesant9015]

How many of these people were born here? I think that should be a prerequisite.

[@douglasballard6956]

Hopefully this mayor is not still in office.. you can see his unfair behavior all over his character..

[@eugenesant9015]

Just wait until Laquida and Laqueefa are on the city council.

[@jamesevans2818]

Workaholics that's what going on here race card playing

[@mom2jeremy]

You go girl @Chris Stevens

[@NADIA-qk8uw]

I hope u all will pay for all our sufferS

[@eugenesant9015]

Diversity is hell on earth.....and these sheltered folks in Idaho don't have a clue what they are in for.

[@FasterFaster196]

Dude. You need professional help.

[@eugenesant9015]

@FasterFaster196 I am the professional help.....but I won't be helping you leftist goons.

[@jayjohnson7728]

It definitely is, look at what they did to the actual native borns. Took over there land and now “they are hard to work with”.

[@markstallings943]

these is what they are doing FFS get a life

[@hrearden6993]

The mayor couldn't think of anything more racist.

[@cherylandbillypowell2588]

Diversity...yeah... how's that been working out for you?

[@eugenesant9015]

Tolkien Black.

[@GracieGirl24]

I like the two women ..one in green the other in white….both are awesome

[@NADIA-qk8uw]

Free my baby ,stop killing My son

[@georgiaamanatides4207]

The blonde woman speaks truth, the one in green just wants to make everything about race. Frankly SHE offends me with her constantly being offended. Get rid of woke folk on your council. Btw, the local population has a right to their culture.

[@jayjohnson7728]

How about the original locals? They had a right to their culture too, but now “they are hard to work with”.

[@georgiaamanatides4207]

@@jayjohnson7728 and how far back do you want to go? The stone age?

[@harryazhol3587]

You need to ax the liberal chics on the right of the table

[@GracieGirl24]

These people has lost the plot….. This is why we are in the shape we are in… Vote out all these people except for the First Lady…she’s got it.

[@timheidel5849]

This is what happens when the woke crazies escape the mess they made in California and move to places like Idaho, where they can ruin those places, too.

[@tylerrandall5119]

Ship stevens and ortega to africa. Let them enjoy the fruits of true inclusion