Once again, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke called a recess Monday night during the city’s regular council meeting as protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war began yelling in chambers.
The same thing happened at council’s Nov. 20 meeting, during that public hearing.
On Dec. 18 after council departed the chambers the protesters remained, holding up signs and chanting “Brenda, Brenda you can’t hide” and “ceasefire on the agenda now,” “Your silence is violence,” and “Palestine will never die,” among other slogans. Protesters took turns making speeches as police officers quietly stood by.
After roughly an hour passed, the protesters departed, council returned and the meeting resumed with a considerably thinned-out audience.