Council Chairwoman Hazel Erby twice threatened to end the meeting prematurely if the demonstrators who interrupted speakers, including eight residents appealing to the council on zoning and other matters didnt cease.
Undeterred, the audience loudly cheered speakers who likened Wilson and other law enforcement officials to war criminals, compared St. Louis County government to the Ku Klux Klan and drew analogies between the St. Louis region and Jim Crow laws.
You are ISIS to black people, one speaker told council members.
The audience jeered a woman who voiced support for the police. She received a police escort from the building after the meeting.
Speakers also threatened to shut down St. Louis Cardinals and Rams games this Sunday, disrupt weekend grocery shopping trips throughout the area and mount massive demonstrations if the Cardinals reach the World Series.