Thursday's FCC Meeting Had 2 Security Incidents

man spoke that he was out of order. A few minutes earlier, security officers surrounded a woman who applauded twice during remarks on the item by Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, who dissented on the order. The woman also stood up at one point. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, who also dissented, looked up from her text to question why the woman was about to be removed. Why are you “removing someone who is behaving from the audience?” Rosenworcel asked. “There’s someone who is sitting here quietly and listening and I would just ask that we not remove people from the room who are quietly listening.” The man was removed from the meeting “because he was disrupting the vote by speaking loudly,” an FCC spokeswoman said Friday. “With respect to the woman in question, she was advised by security earlier in the meeting that members of the audience are not permitted to stand up and thus block the view of others in audience. Security approached her again because she disregarded that warning and stood up a second time. She was once again advised of the relevant policy.”