She exceeded her time

Corvington said he did nothing wrong by telling the woman her time was up. He said the woman had spoken for about double her allotted time and was at the four-minute mark. And he said that after the meeting, he instructed Belmar to make sure that someone with the department followed up to make sure she was OK.

“Those who come to address the board during the public forum are told they have been given an amount of time to speak to the board, and the same was done on that particular day,” he said. “So, she exceeded her time and she was cautioned multiple times about the fact that she exceeded the time. And she told the board we were going to listen to what she had to say, at which time I told her if she continued, I would have her escorted out.”

Another police commissioner, the Rev. Lawrence Wooten, said, “Each person is told two minutes and as I recall, this lady wanted to go on and on. … Why have rules if you’re not going to enforce them?”