A group of anti-police protesters in Cincinnati set fire to an American flag on Thursday night after the city council cut short the public-input portion of a budget meeting, according to a report. City Council member David Mann ordered the public-input portion to end after crowd members started jeering and booing a speaker who wanted the city to increase -- not decrease -- funding for its police department, FOX 19 of Cincinnati reported. “This went from an emotionally charged evening to close to a mob,” Mann told the station. Mann said he didn’t appreciate that “Defund the police” supporters didn’t seem willing to listen to other viewpoints. “We don’t need an official, quote-unquote, meeting to hear the voices of the people of Cincinnati,” council member Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney told the station.

Source: Fox News June 19, 2020 09:22 UTC