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Flint official likens colleague to Hitler, gives Nazi salute

Reports say the councilman accused his colleague of being rude to him and told her she was acting like Hitler.

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FILE - This Jan. 26, 2016 file photo shows a sign over the Flint River noting Flint, Mich., as Vehicle City. After months of national attention on lead-tainted drinking water in Flint, many are starting to ask questions about a 74-mile pipeline being built from Lake Huron to the struggling former auto manufacturing powerhouse. The $285 million project is rooted in political ambitions and long-simmering resentment toward Detroit, which for decades had near-total control of the city’s water rates. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

FLINT, Mich. — A Flint city councilman compared the council's leader to Adolf Hitler and gave her a Nazi salute during a contentious meeting.

Councilman Eric Mays and President Monica Galloway had been verbally clashing at Monday's meeting.

The Flint Journal and Detroit News report that Mays accused Galloway of being rude to him and told her she was acting like Hitler, and that he performed the salute.

Galloway said Wednesday that she was sorry for what transpired, calling it “inappropriate and insensitive.” Mays says he was using Hitler as “an analogy for dictatorship," and that he feels targeted by Galloway.

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