Kalamazoo Mayor David Anderson was growing wary.

Someone going by “Sum Ting Long” had already shouted the first of several racist slurs during Kalamazoo’s virtual city commission meeting, Another, “Harry Potter,” was asking to chime in. And arguably the least offensive public commenter had suggested the mayor looked like an egg.

“This is not a productive use of public time,” Anderson, clearly frustrated, told colleagues last week from the confines of a small box on the Zoom meeting screen. “If we’re going to sit here as 100 people take advantage of this opportunity to anonymously kind of spew some venom out there, I’m not going to be comfortable.”

Source: Michigan governments take to Zoom. Burps, porn and arrest threats follow. | Bridge Magazine