‘We’re getting Zoom bombed’; Racial slurs shouted, swastika written on screen during Longmeadow meeting
Updated Feb 06, 2021;
The problems of 2020 have continued into 2021.
Amid a discussion on actively recruiting more diverse candidates for municipal positions in the town of Longmeadow, a term that became all too familiar last year was the new topic of discussion.
“We’re getting Zoom bombed,” said coalition member Ryan McCollum amid a series of outbursts from at least one attendee.
Longmeadow Coalition for Racial Justice Task Force, a group formed to identify areas of systemic racism in the Western Massachusetts town, held a public meeting on Thursday on Zoom. During the meeting, a series of racial slurs were shouted then the screen was marked with a swastika and the phrase “[expletive] n ”