Public speaker Alex Bielecki shows Nathan Blaze Pinkney his middle finger after Blaze-Pinkney protested Bielecki’s use of a racial slur at the May 30 supervisors meeting. Most of the audience took to their seats as Jones segued into a soliloquy about an ugly display of racist language spewed May 30 by Alex Bielecki while looking directly at spectator Nathan “Blaze” Pinkney, who loudly took umbrage at the epithet hurled during a public comment period at the board’s previous meeting.
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Then, when Jones led the Pledge of Allegiance, the crowd joined in with full voice, especially at the end when they almost shouted the final phrase, “and justice for ALL!” Instead, they waited in stony silence with cardboard protest signs held high overhead until Jones invited Pastor Brian Cummins of Trinity Lutheran Church to the rostrum for an invocation. This was not the usual crowd fawning for recognition and the attention of supervisors Kevin Crye, Chris Kelstrom or Jones. Copyrighted photo by Mike Chapman for A News Cafe.Ī standing-room only crowd - many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with “No Room for Racism” or “Recall Kevin Crye” - filled to overflowing the Shasta County Board of Supervisors chambers in downtown Redding Tuesday even before Chair Patrick Jones gaveled the meeting to order just before 9 a.m. Most audience members stood with backs to Chair Patrick Jones at the meeting’s start Tuesday.
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