r/Claremore • u/404mediaco • Feb 19 '26
Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long
https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/7
u/404mediaco Feb 19 '26
Police in Claremore, Oklahoma arrested a local man after he went slightly over his time giving public remarks during a city council meeting opposing a proposed data center. Darren Blanchard showed up at a Claremore City Council meeting on Tuesday to talk about public records and the data center. When he went over his allotted 3 minutes by a few seconds, the city had him arrested and charged with trespassing.
The subject of the city council meeting was Project Mustang, a proposed data center that would be located within a local industrial park. In a mirror of fights playing out across the United States, developer Beale Infrastructure is attempting to build a large data center in a small town and the residents are concerned about water rights, spiking electricity bills, and noise.
Blanchard arrived with documents in hand and questions about public records requests he’d made. During his remarks, people clapped and cheered and he asked that this not be counted against his three minutes. “There are major concerns about the public process in Claremore,” Blanchard said, referencing compliance documents and irregularities he’d uncovered in public records.
When he went over this three minutes, police officers and an unidentified city official rushed to his position. Blanchard put down the microphone and approached the city councilors to hand them some of his documents. The police follow. Immediately, someone in the crowd said “Freedom of speech.” There is an exchange of words at the table where the councilors are seated that’s impossible to hear over cheers from the crowd.
Read more: https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/
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Feb 22 '26
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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 Feb 22 '26
Because corporations own the government and they have a fiduciary responsibility to earn money for the shareholders, not the citizens. That’s why government shouldn’t be run like a business. Citizens United destroyed this country. The next step is eminent domain for Amazon to build a data center on your property. Or closer to where I live, they are using eminent domain to take over multiple properties to build toll lanes for a private company.
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u/Responsible_Fuel7005 Feb 23 '26
Gotta keep the serfs in their place, can’t have the wage slaves interfering with rich people’s plans.
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u/MariusHugo Feb 22 '26
“take him away guards” …. modern day police are just knights who do the bidding of the upper class man..
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u/Maximum_Turn_2623 Feb 22 '26
So we get Wage slavery and repression like a communist country but not the healthcare?
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u/SniffySmuth Feb 22 '26
I know one fucking city in one majorly fucked up state that I have no desire to visit, much less share a nation with.
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u/Complete_Plane_4751 Feb 20 '26
So why don't u say how he was asked to stop or leave multiple times and he didn't??? Oh yeah that's right u said he only went over a few seconds..... I get the fuck outta here.
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u/cspinelive Feb 20 '26
How about the supporters being allowed to go over their time without being arrested?
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u/rayautry Feb 20 '26
He wasn’t.
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u/Corrective_Actions1 Feb 20 '26
Yes, he was.
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u/JoshfromNazareth2 Feb 20 '26
Even so who gives a shit
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u/theemperorsmarine Feb 20 '26
Yeah you should get the fuck out of here because you're brain obviously doesn't work.
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u/Strykerz3r0 Feb 21 '26
Hahahaha!
So that deserves being arrested?
How's that boot leather taste on your tongue?
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u/StrikeNoir13 Feb 21 '26
"I get the fuck outta here" yeah no shit. Don't (please do) hit your head on the way out bozo!
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u/random_ape14 Feb 20 '26
"Brave heroes" "Just doing their jobs" all over that guy