{"id":5483,"date":"2026-10-02T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/why-mayor-spencer-walked-out-of-police-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:00:30","slug":"why-mayor-spencer-walked-out-of-police-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/why-mayor-spencer-walked-out-of-police-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mayor Spencer Walked Out of Police Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FN_3obzpy-3Q%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mayor Spencer on why she walked out of St. Louis Police Board of Commissioners community meeting\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_3obzpy-3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer\u2018s decision to walk out of a Board of Police Commissioners community meeting Wednesday night appears more complicated than the brief image of a mayor leaving a public meeting might initially suggest. A closer look at available reporting indicates Spencer did not leave while residents were lined up to question her, nor is there evidence she left to avoid answering questions from members of the public. Instead, the available accounts indicate that the formal public participation had essentially run its course when an employee of the<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/why-mayor-spencer-walked-out-of-police-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer\u2018s decision to walk out of a Board of Police Commissioners community meeting Wednesday night appears more complicated than the brief image of a mayor leaving a public&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}