A California official who cursed, drank and threw his cat during a Zoom meeting has resigned from his post, amid growing calls for city leaders to throw the book at him over the incident.
Vallejo, Calif., city planner Chris Platzer stepped down from the job on Saturday over the incident, which occurred during an online meeting with the city’s planning commission on Apr.
20. The commission met over Zoom amid broader efforts to practise social distancing due to the novel coronavirus. “OK, first I’d like to introduce my cat,” Platzer said in the meeting, which was posted online for the public record.
He could be seen holding the cat up to the Zoom camera with both hands before abruptly throwing it upward and out of the frame.