Two citizens in Florida were arrested after they got into a fistfight last week at a St. Petersburg city council meeting.

 

Council members were discussing whether or not to privatise a public pavement outside a shopping plaza. According to the police, after the council voted to approve vacating the pavement, the disturbance erupted involving the men. Both men were arrested for disorderly conduct. They were kept overnight and released the next day on bond.

 

Scenes of scuffle in local councils and parliaments are becoming common all over the world. South Korea, Bolivia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine. The Internet is crawling with examples of fight scenes in hemicycle.

 

The MSNBC video "City Council Brawl In South Florida Caught On Tape"