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Residents use public comment to press council on divestment, free speech and immigration issues

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Multiple speakers used the public-comment period to call on Chino Hills leaders to address free-speech concerns and to ask the city to direct its investment managers to divest from companies cited for alleged human-rights violations.

During the public-comment period at the April 8 council meeting, four speakers urged the council to take positions on free-speech, immigration and investment holdings.

Abraham Kooten told the council that constitutional protections, including free speech, are under attack and called on the city to defend students and immigrants. "These are not privileges... these are rights and they are not up for…

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