Racist trolls hijacked a Zoom town hall to hurl slurs at Connecticut's first Black congresswoman

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Ten minutes into a virtual town hall meeting with voters on Monday, Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) heard someone on the Zoom broadcast shout a racist slur.

The congresswoman’s team muted the offending user and Hayes resumed telling the attendees about her legislation. Then, she was interrupted again, this time with the same slur repeated on a loop, set to music.

“Go pick your cotton,” someone repeatedly copy-and-pasted into the Zoom chat in all capital letters, alongside the n-word.

Whenever Hayes’s team shut out one person hijacking the town hall with hate speech, another quickly picked up the harassment. The “Zoombombing” attack lasted for six minutes, Hayes wrote in a Medium post recounting the experience on Tuesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/racist-trolls-hijacked-a-zoom-town-hall-to-hurl-slurs-at-connecticuts-first-black-congresswoman/ar-BB1a0lcE?li=BBnb7Kz

[marble falls]

1. If I hear someone say we're in a "post racial" USA, I'll go postal.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. To me, all this did is make me far more determined to support this representative from Conn.,

and despise these thugs who felt like that they alone had the right to deny the rest of the meeting participants the ability to hear their Congressperson speak (or just speak if not their representative). If anything, it makes me far more determined to ensure that I vote for such people as Rep. Hayes.

I abhor people who feel like sprouting their nonsense, slurs and such, offending all in the room with their remarks, including possibly children in the room. Does this constitute child endangerment? Perhaps they can track down who all dialed into the Zoom conference, I suspect being digital, this would be possible. I hope that she (the representative) does notify the authorities, who can then pursue and track down these thugs.

How pathetic. Interfering w/ the political process in some states does carry some negative consequences, like in MO, if you steal a sign, you could face charges.