A defiant Regan Benson was ejected from the Englewood, Colorado, city council meeting Monday night for disruption after interrupting several speakers and Mayor Othoniel Sierra with applause.

Under a standing state law, disruption is defined as applauding, booing, yelling and speaking during the public feedback portion of the Englewood City Council meeting. Mayor Sierra had warned Benson that she would be ejected if she continued to disrupt after she applauded for Christopher “Denver Metro Audits” Cordova, who had just addressed the council.

Benson stood and applauded for two other speakers, resulting in Mayor Sierra having police escort Benson out of the city council chamber.

The YouTuber had been taunting Englewood with threats to sue over her first amendment rights since winning two settlements and $130,000.00 from the city of Denver last month for first amendment retaliation.

She had made it clear that she would be pursuing similar lawsuits against the city of Englewood should they not bow down to her demands to change policy involving the Englewood police department.

It is unclear at this time if the ejection, which was legal under standing city ordinance, will be the source for Benson’s threatened lawsuits.

Benson was there to protest proposed changes to the public speaking portion of the meeting. In her fiery speech to open the public speaking portion of the meeting, she offered a deal to the council: drop all planned changes to public speaking and she and Cordova would never attempt to speak again at the meetings.

She then attacked all of the members of the city council, calling them tyrants and complaining as someone on the city clerk’s staff changed the title of her address from addressing “tyrants of Englewood” to addressing “City of Englewood.”

Cordova would follow her, demanding the firing of Englewood police officers Robby Ford and Matthew Stanley for various incidents involving homeless. Cordova singled out Ford, who Benson has been focused on having removed for some time, calling the man a danger to society and needed to be housed in a cage.

Benson and Cordova’s antics have brought a good deal of attention to the biweekly meeting of the council over the past year. Their time addressing the council, aired live on YouTube, usually are speeches designed to insult and degraded council members who they disagree with and demand change from the city council despite neither living in Englewood.

Often live streaming while sitting next to the speaker’s podium, Benson was known for insulting and degrading speakers who she disagreed with via text messages to her YouTube side chat, often calling female speakers “dumb bitches” behind their backs as they were speaking.

After the ejection, the city council debated changes to the public speaking portion of the meeting and passed those changes.

Changes of note:

• There will be a set time limit of 90 minutes for the public feedback session.
• Each person signed up to speak will get 3 minutes to speak; eliminating the 3- and 5-minute current sessions.
• Audio Visual material must be provided two business days in advance to the council. The council will have the material ready for presentation.
• Speakers must provide their name and cross street to the city clerk when they sign up to speak. Out of towners must give their name and city name/state name. Anyone refusing to give this information will not be called on to speak.
• Speakers will be called on in order of signup, unless the person has previously spoken at the meeting in the last 90 days. Those speakers will be put at the end of the list of speakers.
• There’s no guarantee that speakers will get the ability to speak. Cut off is a firm 90 minutes.
• Those wishing to record the meeting will do so from a designated press table at the back of the room.
• Those that disrupt the meeting by booing, applauding, yelling or talking will be ejected by police.
• The time limit for speakers starts when they begin speaking and not when they are called upon.
• No flash photography during the meeting without permission.

The changes have been made after an extensive study by the city council, taking feedback from the public on multiple occasions. While Benson and Cordova promoted the idea that the city council were doing away with the public feedback portion of the meeting, the council did not do so.

City Council meetings remain open to all members of the public, and all members of the public are allowed to sign up to speak, including those who live outside of Englewood.