Berkeley Heights Town Council Meeting Disrupted by Offensive Zoom Bombing
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The special meeting called by the mayor and Town Council to adopt an ordinance for storm repairs was hijacked three different times by a spammer, causing the meeting to be shut down and restarted.
Images were pornographic, racist and derogatory in nature.
At different times, what appeared to be swastikas appeared in the pornographic images.
Town Administrator Viana came onto the meeting to quickly announce the meeting would be rescheduled for tomorrow and apologized to everyone for the graphic and obscene images.
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