A highly anticipated Tempe City Council meeting on Thursday evening was abruptly canceled by Tempe police due to safety concerns.

The council had been set to vote on a repeal measure set to be sent to the ballot for the city's March elections. The council could either formally put the measure, which would nix a new special events ordinance that activists say targets mutual aid groups operating in city parks, or pass the repeal measure into city code.

Just 15 minutes after the meeting was scheduled to begin, a Tempe police official announced that the meeting would be postponed due to a safety issue and asked that everyone calmly exit the Tempe Municipal Building, where the meeting was to take place. A leisurely evacuation of the giant inverted pyramid followed.

Mayor Corey Woods was se

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