WATCH: Louisiana Mayor Slaps Cellphone Out of Woman’s Hand During Heated Council Meeting — Gets Cited for Battery
A Louisiana mayor has been cited for battery after a heated altercation during a council meeting on Monday.
Elton Mayor Kesia Lemoine was caught on camera slapping a phone out of the hands of onlooker Heidi Newell, who was filming her fighting with other constituents.
Other meeting attendees held back Lemoine as she tried to follow a woman out of the room while yelling at her.
The woman is heard in the footage yelling at the mayor, “Keep your f-cking hands off of me!” She was then escorted out of the building by police.
“I was videoing like we normally do because of situations and she basically turned around, hit me in the chest and knocked my phone out of my hand,” Newell said,
