Some people got locked out of today's Detroit City Council meeting, where Detroit Mayor Dave Bing was laying out a 5-year budget plan that called for cutting employee pension and health care costs.
Council security told citizens and several reporters that they couldn't come in because the hearing room was "filled to capacity."
That escalated into a dispute between security guards and the people who demanded their right to enter under the state's Open Meetings Act.
Detroit resident and volunteer organizer Felicia Sanders wanted to hear Bing's presentation.
"If you get up and you're willing to attend a meeting to fight and speak out for your city, you should be allowed to participate in the meeting."
Sanders and others questioned why the City Council didn't hold the hearing in a much larger public auditorium just across the hall.