Mayor Tiffany Henyard of Dolton Continues to Violate the Civil Rights of Residents
Mayor Tiffany Henyard of Dolton Continues to Violate the Civil Rights of Residents (Dolton, IL) (ECWd) – Prior to last night’s Dolton Village board meeting, Mayor Tiffany Henyard thought it was a good idea to violate the rights of a citizen attempting to attend the public meeting of the village of Dolton. She had a police officer remove Stephanie Wiedeman prior to the meeting, without due process. This allegedly violated her right to attend a public meeting under the Open Meetings Act and her First Amendment right to speak at the meeting and to hear what others were speaking about.
Also, at the meeting Mayor Henyard had the police confiscate a sign brought in by another resident of the village. This is alleged to violate her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, her First Amendment right carry a sign, and her right to attend and speak at public meetings while carrying a sign.
We urge Dolton residents to continue attending these meetings, bring a sign with them if they want, speak at the meetings, and assist the resident who was removed to attend future meetings without being forcibly removed by the Dolton Police under an illegal order by the Mayor.
Overstepping Bounds
Mayor Henyard is overstepping the bounds of decency in these civil rights violations.
The only way to prohibit an individual from attending a public meeting is by obtaining a court order preventing their attendance at the public meeting. There was no court order. Mayor Henyard’s orders be damned, those police officers should have refused to violate the civil rights of Dolton residents.
We urge both women to obtain legal counsel specializing in civil rights violations.
Mayor Tiffany Henyard of Dolton Continues to Violate the Civil Rights of Residents
FANTASTIC !
This absolutely happing I was a citizen kept from ATTENDING THE 9-5-23 VILLAGE OPEN PUBLIC COMMUNITY MEETING STOPPED BY DEPUTY LEWIS LACEY CHIEF ROBERT COLLINS & COMMANDER REILY SAT ACROSS THE STREET & HAD TO WATCH THE MEETING ON MY SON PHONE & I MADE THE DECISION TO LIVE RECORDED IT IMPEDED ON MY RIGHT TO ENTER & FREE MOVEMENT HAD NO KIND OF ORDER FROM ANY JUDGE BREACH OF PUBLIC TRUST CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION & Abuse OF TITLE & POSITION
People quickly forget who allowed these politicians and police officers to become emboldened and continuously violate the law pertaining to citizen rights of free movement and free speech. The people of this country did! It happened three short years ago under the guise of “health.” We now see that those who pushed back and questioned everything were correct in their fight to do so. When you give ego-centric people with certain titles an inch, they take a mile. What a sad lesson to learn. Lives were unnecessarily lost prematurely, people lost their jobs, and division was created over false fear. Do not blindly follow an illegal directive “ordered” by anyone who claims they have authority. Know the law. Know the constitution. Know your legal rights as a U.S. citizen. Speak up and stand up, together, and let these so-called “officials” know that they, too, must follow the law. The tide is turning, folks. It’s incredibly painful to see people had to suffer in order for others to wake up.