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Protester escorted out, placed in handcuffs after incident at city meeting to discuss Royals downtown stadium agreement<\/p>\n

\"JoBethKANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014<\/p>\n

Tensions boiled over at the Kansas City Finance Committee Meeting Tuesday as the public met with city officials to discuss public financing of the new Kansas City Royals downtown ballpark. <\/p>\n

Members of the public were each given two minutes to speak while the committee discussed an ordinance that, if passed, would authorize the City Manager to execute a lease, non-relocation agreement, community impact partnership agreement, and funding agreement with the Kansas City Royals for the proposed stadium near Crown Center. <\/p>\n

During the meeting, individuals with the group Stand Up KC were seen standing in the committee room in protest of the public financing portion of the agreement.<\/p>\n

Video shows one individual in a red shirt shout comments about justice during the meeting. When security intervened and attempted to escort the individual out of the room, a struggle ensued. <\/p>\n

That struggle continued into the hallway outside of the city council chamber. KMBC 9 News Reporter Krista Tatschl watched as the individual was wrestled to the ground and placed into handcuffs. <\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas exited the chambers during the struggle. Krista Tatschl caught up with him in the hallway. He told KMBC 9 News that he hoped public comment could continue and that cooler heads could prevail. <\/p>\n

This is not the first time tempers have flared at a meeting discussing the new Kansas City Royals stadium. A meeting in July ended early after repeated disruptions.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Less than an hour later, the measure passed out of committee unanimously and will head to the full City Council on September 3. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protester escorted out, placed in handcuffs after incident at city meeting to discuss Royals downtown stadium agreement KANSAS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[8684,5,8588,96163,26875,22580,96159,85335,9767,66412,96157,9758,96160,96165,23453,41124,936,2123,39033,96162,55,2596,2595,20243,60535,65693,66343,24022,4,96161,96158,54631,61402,17507,60527,252,11826,96164,1428,22600,95703,8584,9371,2183],"class_list":["post-782166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-agreement","tag-baseball","tag-city-council","tag-city-council-chamber","tag-comment","tag-committee","tag-community-impact-agreement","tag-crown-center","tag-downtown","tag-downtown-ballpark","tag-finance-committee","tag-funding","tag-funding-agreement","tag-hallway","tag-handcuffs","tag-individual","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-missouri","tag-kansas-city-protester","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kmbc","tag-lease-agreement","tag-mayor-lucas","tag-mayor-quinton-lucas","tag-meeting","tag-mlb","tag-news-reporter-krista-tatschl","tag-non-relocation-agreement","tag-protest","tag-public-comment","tag-public-financing","tag-quinton-lucas","tag-royals","tag-royals-stadium","tag-royals-stadium-meeting","tag-stadium","tag-stadium-agreement","tag-stand-up-kc","tag-struggle","tag-taxes","tag-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}