Shouts reverberated off the walls inside the Salt Lake City and County building Thursday as a group of a dozen protesters marched to Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s office on the third floor.
Over the next two hours, the anti-police-brutality demonstrators, including Cody Belgard’s older brother and father, shifted between chants and pleas for the two city employees sitting at desks in the office’s foyer to talk to them. They were, the protesters said, constituents, and many of them said they had voted for Biskupski.
After Chief of Staff Patrick Leary initially told protesters a meeting with family would be set up, but nothing would happen that day, the employees — Leary at one desk and executive assistant Christie Marcy at the other — met the continued requests and shouts with stone-faced silence.