An irate woman disrupted city hall in New Britain Tuesday morning, shouting complaints about the city and her taxes, demanding to see Mayor Erin Stewart, and finally grabbing a pair of scissors and stabbing a counter behind which one of the mayor’s assistants was sitting.
The woman, who was not identified, was calmed by police and taken to a local hospital for observation. Stewart was not in town hall at the time at the incident, which erupted at about 9 a.m.
Stewart said her staff told her they heard a commotion on the first floor of town hall, where the woman was screaming and swearing about about paying her taxes and other things “that just didn’t make sense.