An official in a California metropolis resigned after throwing his cat and apparently gulping a beer throughout a Zoom assembly with different functionaries.
Video of the Vallejo Planning Fee teleconference on April 20 exhibits Chris Platzer selecting up his pet and all of a sudden launching the animal off-screen.
“I’d prefer to introduce my cat,” Platzer mentioned proper earlier than the kitty-toss.
The planning commissioner was additionally noticed taking sips from a inexperienced bottle, the Instances-Herald reported.
And he was heard making demeaning remarks following the convention.
“I’m going to name bull— on you little b—s,” he mentioned, in accordance with the unique fee assembly footage launched by the Northern California metropolis.
In an electronic mail to the Instances-Herald on Saturday, Platzer mentioned he had stepped down from the seven-person panel.
The resignation got here days earlier than the Metropolis Council was set to think about a decision eradicating him from his submit.
“I didn't conduct myself within the Zoom assembly in a way befitting of a planning commissioner and apologize for any hurt I'll have inflicted,” Platzer wrote within the electronic mail.
“I serve on the pleasure of the council and not have that belief and backing. I prolong my gratitude to those that have supported me throughout my tenure. I've at all times felt that serving Vallejo in a voluntary place is honorable as a result of Vallejo is price serving. We're all residing in unsure occasions and I definitely, like a lot of you, am adjusting to a brand new normalcy.”
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