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Grass Valley meeting features sharply divided public comments over council’s earlier ceasefire resolution
Summary
At public comment dozens of people urged the council either to defend or to rescind a previously passed ceasefire resolution, with speakers alternately praising the council’s moral stance or saying the council overstepped its jurisdiction and amplified outside groups.
Public commenters at the Grass Valley City Council meeting on April 22 sharply disagreed about a ceasefire resolution the council adopted at a prior meeting, with multiple speakers praising the council’s action and others urging the council to rescind or reconsider it.
Mikos Faberson, who identified himself as a resident and advocate, opened the sequence of remarks urging the council to “defend its passage” of the resolution, which he said resulted from public advocacy demanding a ceasefire and an end to killing. “If anything, the resolution should have been stronger,” Faberson said, calling for a broader arms embargo in remarks to…
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