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TexasTowelie

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Fri Jun 7, 2019, 10:53 AM Jun 2019

One arrested after protesters swarm Utah Inland Port Authority Board meeting [View all]

SALT LAKE CITY — Seconds after the Utah Inland Port Authority's meeting began Wednesday, chaos erupted.

Protesters with the group Civil Riot swarmed the port board meeting — many wearing surgical face masks marked with an "X" — ran to the front of the committee room at the Utah State Capitol, some locking arms as nearly a dozen Utah Highway Patrol troopers jumped into action to escort them out for violating rules of decorum.

"We are here to stop the port," one female protester shouted. "Your meeting failed because it will destroy our communities. This is not OK."

Nearly a dozen troopers, who were standing at the ready even before the meeting started, began forcibly removing those who resisted. Derek Miller, the port authority's board chairman, told board members to exit the room through a back door.

Read more: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900074006/inland-port-authority-board-meeting-protest-activists.html

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