[inquest]

After the council had asked him to be seated, however, he was guilty of disrupting a pubic meeting.

It seems they were justified in arresting him if he was in fact speaking out of order. But the comment about not being able to read the Bible from the podium is way uncalled for.

[jpw01]

I would certainly agree with you on that point. It was also out of order to refer to the Bible reading as "hate speech".