Yolanda Cooper-sutton

Next ban, Yolanda Cooper Sutton has also been suspended.

Yes, Yolanda Cooper-Sutton suspended for two Memphis City Council meetings following the heated confrontation, what we talked about a second ago, the October 6th meeting.

It grew contentious after the council members voted 7-5 to delay action on the proposal.

Cooper-Sutton was involved in a heated exchange during the disruption, so the suspensions have drawn scrutiny over free speech rights, that sort of thing.

So not just Justin J. Pearson, Yolanda Cooper-Sutton.

Wait, hold on a second.

Read a little deeper there because I think I saw where she was not suspended from the meeting, but she was suspended from chairing any of the meeting.

Councilwoman...

it wasn't, hold on, let me make sure I have the name correct, because there's a number of them, and my screen is a little bit, well, I think first name was Yolanda, I think that's what I'm seeing here, but she was the loudest one saying that, hey, look, there was a contract, there was this, there was that, there was a back door, this and that, and just like every counselor, you have your You have your wannabe scenes.

You have your conservative leaning.

You have your Democratic leaning.

There we go.

It was...

Is it Yolanda?

There we go.

Nope.

And you get Yolanda Cooper Sutton as your nurse.

[laughs] You think the lines are bad-

Oh, my goodness

Yeah, and, and so inside the meeting, protesters, they confronted city council members.

Uh, one, one city councilwoman, her name is Yolanda Cooper-Sutton, she got into it with another protester-

Mm

... and then got into it with an- another fellow, uh, councilman.

Perfectly reasonable.

The woman yelling is Metro City Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton.

She's angry that data centers are in her district and now she is opposing the unregulated data center growth.

Again, we did talk about that yesterday.

But the point is that they're arguing over these data centers.

By the way, the woman that you heard yelling, she is a Metro City Councilwoman, Yolanda Cooper-Sutton, and she is big mad.

Uh, you've got the Metro City Council up front.

Locals are standing in front of them yelling.

And this Yolanda Cooper-Sutton, her, her district includes both of, uh, XAI's Colossus data centers.

These, these, these things are just massive, and they're, they're, again, in Memphis, and they're in Yolanda Cooper-Sutton's district.

And so they had to escort her out after clashing with protesters and Councilman JB Smiley following the council's 7 to 5 vote to postpone a data center moratorium there in Memphis until October 20th.

She's quoted as saying, now this is her quote, "I ain't no coward.

Then you've got those who might be a little bit more persuadable.

Yolanda Cooper-Sutton, if you recall, she was shocked that xAI's data centers fell outside of the top 25.

She said, "It's not even top five.

Why does everybody think that it's a huge polluter? It's not even top five." So I mean, and just given that, I mean, just given, like, what we've seen, the information that we've gotten, I think that the Memphis City Council this evening will vote for some rules for data centers, but I don't think a moratorium is going to be in the future for these data centers.