As the Council speaker was about to begin a news conference with faith leaders on a matter upsetting to the mayor, his deputy chief of staff suddenly appeared in the rotunda, along with an aide wheeling a hand truck. Menashe Shapiro, the deputy chief of staff, ordered several reporters seated there for the news conference to stand. He was taking their chairs away.
In this case, it was the subject of the news conference: the Council speaker, Adrienne Adams, announcing her intention to override the mayor's veto of two criminal justice bills that he asserts would jeopardize public safety if they became law.
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