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Katie Wilson has agreed to turn off the cameras but not dismantle them yet. The rally was small with about ten people speaking and about 20 in attendance who were not speakers/organizers. (But it also wasn’t highly publicized and rally turnout doesn’t generally say much about what percent of the city agrees with a position.) A common theme from speakers was that they are slightly disappointed in Katie Wilson but haven’t given up on her, and some people even wore their Katie Wilson for Mayor shirts. A representative from the Transit Riders Union said they still feel some “responsibility” for her because she came out of their organization. A drag queen who uses the stage name Miss Texas 1988 said that as a “nightlife worker” she had seen people in altercations in her nighttime walks after work and said she had intervened more often to protect people from police (unclear what that meant – filming the police, or telling people to ask if they were free to go?) than to call the police. (I don’t know how accurate this is generally; I am just writing what she said.) She directed remarks to Wilson saying, “You should listen to the community’s needs, and you’re not going to discover our needs by filming us.” submitted by /u/bennetthaselton |
