A Massachusetts town councilor has been seen on video screaming at an anti-vaxxer and storming out of the board meeting after being accused of a conflict of interest.
Kevin MacDonald turned up to Wilmington Town’s Select Board meeting on Tuesday, took a microphone in the public gallery and began addressing the local representatives about a ‘potential financial impact on the town’.
Wearing a sports jacket and jeans the 60-year-old man quickly began ranting about ‘consequences from the vaccines’ effecting the insurance of the local firemen.
MacDonald, who has a previous charge for assault and battery after chasing local workmen with his excavator in 2019, soon ended up in a face-off with Councilor Lillia Maselli who he claimed had a conflict of interest with the fireman.
After a terse exchange Maselli asked the local to ‘Why don’t you go f**k yourself’ before asking for the police to be called and storming out of the room.
In the recording, posted by local news site Wilmington Community Television, MacDonald is seen brandishing a QR code purporting to lead to Rumble
Board member, Gregory Bendel, becomes annoyed saying ‘don’t you raise your voice at me pal. I’ll throw you out’ while gesturing at the door to the meeting room.
In the recording, posted by local news site Wilmington Community Television, MacDonald is seen brandishing a QR code purporting to lead to Rumble, the video streaming service favored by conspiracists, with the quotation ‘Died Suddenly’.
Maselli appears to calmly reject MacDonald’s outlandish complaints about the vaccine but becomes increasingly irritated.
Board member, Gregory Bendel, becomes annoyed saying ‘don’t you raise your voice at me pal. I’ll throw you out’ while gesturing at the door to the meeting room.
‘Mr chair, I’m going to excuse myself because I don’t have time to waste sitting here listening to this’ Maselli tells the board.
When MacDonald continued to hit her with a barrage of questions she turns to address him and says ‘I am not going to answer anything for you. You are out of line.’
MacDonald then accuses her of a conflict of interest for working for a company named that MacDonald says is a risk to the fire department for ‘gas leaks’.
As the rambling continues Maselli says ‘I am not here as an employee I am here as a select person.’
As the face of continues MacDonald tells her to ‘have a nice night, thank you for your attention to this matter’ but the situation had already become too heated.
Maselli responds, ‘it’s a good thing nobody in this town likes you or listens to anything you say.
‘Why don’t you go get some ice cream’ he retorts.
‘Why don’t you go f**k yourself’ Maselli says before collecting her things and asking someone to call the police in ‘so this guy doesn’t attack any of us. If he’s going to be here, I am not. I am done with this ‘s**t’.’
How does one “brandish” a QR code?