WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) â Wausau Mayor Katie Rosenberg and three members of the Marathon County Board of Supervisors called a shotgun press conference Tuesday afternoon to issue a proclamation declaring the city âA Community for All,â following the County Boardâs Executive Committee voting down a similar resolution and in light of a recent New York Times article on the matter.
Rosenberg said her office spent much of Tuesday in damage control mode because of the story, adding that what was written was âheartbreaking.â
âThe byline said Wausau, Wisconsin,â said Rosenberg. âIt was devastating to read that about my community.â
Rosenberg deferred much of the comment at Tuesdayâs event to Supervisors William Harris, Ka Lo, and Yee Leng Xiong who were all in favor of the resolution which failed last week. They also called the story a false representation of their experiences in the community.
Chico State’s Policing Task Force hosted a meeting on Tuesday at approximately 5:30 p.m. Shortly after, the Zoom bombing began.
“It started out with kid’s noises, random noises,” said Alexander Smith, a Chico State student who witnessed the Zoom bombing.
The noises then progressed to pornographic material. Suddenly, the chat was bombarded with hate speech that included the N-word.
According to Smith, the Zoom bomb lasted approximately eight minutes before the meeting ended.
“A couple of students said they were being Zoom bombed,” Smith said. “The coordinators kinda fumbled in dealing with the Zoom bombing while it was occuring.”