Harris-Muhammed took particular exception to the assertion that she “jumped up to hold (Gray) back.”

“I want to be clear, I did not physically hold anyone back,” she said. “I just got up because I had had enough.”

Harris-Muhammed said she was not sitting in her regular seat but rather at a table in front of the semicircle where board members sit.

She said she walked toward Gray and said, “just calm down,” then walked toward Taylor and repeated “just calm down” and also said “let it go.”

“Ms. Gray was acting aggressively, but then she looked at me and put her arm on my shoulder and said, ‘I’m tired of this.’ I said, ‘I am, too, baby.’ ”

Harris-Muhammed said the incident was proof that the board still needs serious governance training.

“Whatever is holding us back, we’re going to have to stop,” she said. “We have to be adults, be grown-up people, handle situations like grown people.”

Harris-Muhammed said she didn’t feel threatened in the room.

“But we can’t define that for (Taylor),” she said. “Hopefully, in the near future, we can all learn how to respect each other’s space.”