ENIGMA, Ga. (WALB) - What started out as a standard city council meeting to kick off the New Year ended in complete chaos, and it was all recorded by a resident on cell phone video.

”I will say this is not unusual.“

This argument broke out between Mayor Cecil Giddens and Councilman Ronald Harbin. In the video, Councilman Harbin’s wife is heard calling the mayor childish and Harbin responds by saying the mayor needs to grow up. Moments after, the mayor responds to Councilman Harbin’s wife by saying:

”Hey, Mrs. Harbin do you know the real reason why Ron lost his job?“

That’s when the meeting took an unexpected turn.

“I was cool and calm the other night. But he got all ruled out. I don’t know. He doesn’t want to hear the truth,” said Mayor Cecil Giddens.

The mayor told WALB that this is not the first time the pair have gotten into a heated debate but he couldn’t believe it got this unruly.

“The police were trying to push him back and he was pushing the police into. I reckon he was going to knock me down,” said Giddens.

Former Council members call this incident embarrassing and believe it’s an inaccurate representation of the city

“This does not represent them very well at all and it’s just personal vendettas, personal power struggles, and we really don’t need that they deserve better,” said Cecil Hutchinson, former city council member.”

WALB reached out to Councilman Harbin for his side of events and he did not return calls for comment.

Full Video: Enigma City Council meeting scuffle

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