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Person Opposing Data Center Arrested for Clapping at City Meeting

Police refused to release the arrest report, saying it could "could interfere with ongoing investigative efforts."
Person Opposing Data Center Arrested for Clapping at City Meeting
Image via Emporia County Commission.

Police arrested a high school physics teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last Wednesday. Teacher Lux Claridge went to a meeting of the Emporia, Kansas City Commission on July 22 with their spouse and brother. All three were there to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land in Emporia. They left the meeting in handcuffs, dragged out by police on the orders of a city commissioner.

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