SACRAMENTO — A legislative listening to in California was disrupted on Wednesday when an animal rights organizer glued her hand to a desk and refused to go away.
The Meeting Agriculture Committee met to vote on numerous items of laws. The assembly included a restricted public remark session the place persons are solely allowed to say their identify, affiliation and whether or not they assist or oppose a invoice.
Carla Cabral, an organizer with the animal rights group Direct Motion In every single place, wished to inform lawmakers how upset she was that they weren't voting on a invoice that proposed a moratorium on new manufacturing unit farms.
Cabral sat down and shortly utilized superglue to her left hand and positioned it on the desk in entrance of her. Committee officers turned off her microphone, however Cabral saved talking. Committee chair Robert Rivas, a Democrat from Hollister, then stopped the listening to so lawmakers and employees might transfer to a different room to complete.
In an interview, Cabral stated paramedics used WD-40 to free her hand from the desk. Police then escorted her from the constructing, however didn't arrest her or concern a quotation. Cabral stated she was not injured, calling it “a minor irritation in comparison with the billions of animals being murdered.”