The camera bode well for Duckworth -- who describes himself as a "licensed asshole" on his blog, Random Talk on Urban Affairs -- in that the video recorder caused McKee to halt the meeting and confront Duckworth. When Duckworth declined to stop filming, McKee summarily ended his presentation and departed the building.
As you can see at the 3:15 minute mark, the video camera didn't seem to bother the handful of St. Louis cops seated alongside the wall of the gymnasium.
In related news, yesterday urban architecture aficionado and fellow St. Louis blogger, Michael Allen, posted some telling photos of the