FERGUSON, Mo. - Before Tuesday night's regular council meeting, the Ferguson City Council held a special meeting to discuss an incident involving a council member.

Councilman David Williams was recorded on camera displaying an obscene gesture during last month’s council meeting in response to a citizen’s behavior. He said the citizen continued to interrupt him even though the public’s opportunity to comment had ended.

“I gave her the bird,” Williams recently told FOX 2.

During Tuesday’s special meeting, council members debated whether more needs to be done to maintain decorum during meetings.

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Williams said, “I did not do that gesture toward the entire crowd. It was to one person. But however, that can be seen as an emb

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