Steve Taylor, a St. Louis Community College adjunct instructor, came to the college district's board of trustee meeting last night with prepared remarks. He planned to highlight the award he'd gotten for excellence in teaching and his stellar reviews — and then talk about the troubling "culture of intimidation" he saw.Instead, he was given further proof of it.
When Taylor, 54, stood up and began to object to rules that allowed people at the meeting to clap for administrators and other presenters, but not during the public comment portion, he was grabbed from behind by a police officer and thrown to the floor.…