The people of Flint, Michigan, have suffered what should be one of the most devastating failures of government ever. Sorry, Trump haters, but you don’t come close. Yet, it’s failed miserably to gain much traction. After all, what’s the big deal about some lead in a city’s water supply damaging the brains of children?

But for those who can’t get the hell out of Flint, the problem remains, so they held a “town hall” type meeting about it with Flint’s mayor, except it was in the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church. Flint Police Chief Tim Johnson wasn’t about to let this meeting get out of hand.

“I just want to make sure this meeting goes off the way it’s supposed to and that everybody’s respecting everyone,” he said. “Please don’t be in here trying to disrupt this meeting, because if you do I’m going to escort you out and I’m only going to take you to the back door and then you’re going to jail. I’m not going to play with nobody tonight.”

And by “disrupt,” Johnson meant behave the way he thinks people should in church.

Officers stopped men wearing hats from entering the church sanctuary unless they removed them, and men who would not remove their hats were asked to leave. The issue led to arguments between members of the public and police.

They also escorted people out who used profanity inside the church.

“There’s a couple people that’s arrested,” Johnson said. “There’s a couple people cussing in the church, disorderly conduct.”

After all, just because the water in Flint was contaminated with lead, so that the poor, the minority, were left unaware that their children’s brains didn’t have a chance, is no reason to cuss in church. And take that hat off. The Constitution doesn’t give you the right to wear a hat during a secular government meeting about how its been poisoning you. It’s a church, dammit. Show some respect or Chief Tim will show you a cell.