A man was arrested after he interrupted a Oakland City Council meeting and vaulted the dais as stunned councilmembers looked on.

The incident happened as Councilwoman Pat Kernighan was discussing a development project at City Hall shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday.

The suspect, Dante Cano, 20, wearing a backpack and a baseball cap, clambered on top of a table separating the council and audience members and began saying something unintelligible, authorities said. He took off his backpack, dropped it to the floor and began gesticulating before suddenly jumping on top of the dais, according to a video of the incident.

He then jumped off as several people, including Mike Munson, operations manager for KTOP-TV10, which broadcasts council meetings, moved toward him. They escorted him out of the chambers.

Oakland Assistant Police Chief Paul Figueroa said he was in a conference room at the city administrator’s office nearby when he saw the incident unfold on TV. He immediately went to the chambers and followed Cano out of City Hall. That’s when the suspect turned around, saw Figueroa and began running, the assistant chief said.

“Yeah 19L2, just to be clear, he ran up into the dais area during the council meeting,” Figueroa said on the police radio. “I went to detain him. He took off, so that’s the want right now.”

Officers caught up to him and arrested Cano on suspicion of trespassing, disturbing a public meeting and a warrant. He was being held at Santa Rita Jail in lieu of $70,000 bail.

Figueroa said police will “have a presence at council meetings moving forward. We are reviewing security protocols because of this incident.”

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