A councilman in Flint, Michigan, gave a Nazi salute to the council president and compared her to Adolf Hitler during a heated meeting.
Flint Councilman Eric Mays told President Monica Galloway she was acting like Hitler when she sought to move to another point on the agenda as the two clashed over other matters on Tuesday.
“Did you have to be rude to me?” Mays asked, according to Detroit News.
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“I’m not trying to be rude,” Galloway responded.
“Well, then, you shouldn’t have, I was wrapping it up,” he said. “You ain’t got to be like Hitler. You sound like it from where I sat, like Hitler, what you want me to do.”
Mays then gave Galloway the Nazi salute.
On Wednesday, Galloway said she was “sorry to the community” for what happened, the Associated Press reported. She called Mays’ gesture “inappropriate and insensitive.”
Mays said he used Hitler as “an analogy for dictatorship,” and he felt targeted by Galloway.
A year ago, Mays was escorted by police from a meeting after he had been removed from his position as finance chairman. He has also been accused of pawning his publicly owned laptop nine times.
