Hecklers prompt Seattle mayor to bolt from community meeting

Mayor Mike McGinn walked out of one of his own
community meetings Tuesday night after he was
heckled and shouted down by the crowd.

It was supposed to be a conversation with the community,
but
when a crowd kept heckling McGinn, he had enough and
headed for
the door.

McGinn was in the Mt. Baker neighborhood making his
fifth stop in the Rainier Valley on his own “Engage
Seattle”
tour.

He was heckled so badly that he took off his microphone
and
told the crowd the meeting wasn’t productive and that the
crowd won.

KIRO TV reports some in the emotional, outspoken crowd
shouted they wanted to hear from police, not the mayor,
about problems in the neighborhood.

The mayor says he’ll reschedule the meeting. Outside, he
spoke with other attendees, but the hecklers returned.