“An elderly veteran was arrested at a county board meeting last Friday in Tennessee after asking the members to speak up.

Eddie Overholt, 76, can be heard in the clip above asking the Greene County Industrial Development Board, “Would y’all speak up until the whole audience can hear you?”

The contentious meeting over a plan to build a pipeline that would dump water into the Nolichucky River had been interrupted several times by audience members asking the board to speak louder. The members were not using microphones and some sat with their backs to the audience, the Greeneville Sun reported.”* The Young Turks host Ana Kasparian breaks it down.

*Read more here from Ed Mazza / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/22/eddie-overholt-elderly-veteran-arrested_n_5608280.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics