What you describe is a teacher getting arrested for clapping. Yes, they got arrested after being asked not to clap. But they were arrested for clapping. The clapping was characterized as disorderly conduct. But they were arrested for clapping. Clapping, five times, in polite agreement with a speaker at a town hall.

Notably, the crowd was told not to clap during people's speech; the teacher clapped after a speech ended.

There is no lie. The crowd was upset and voicing their displeasure. The police responded to protected speech, at a venue intended for public commentary, by forceful removal. If that isn't an arrest due to opposing the government's proposal, I don't know what is.

> Yes, they got arrested after being asked not to clap.

My reading is that he was arrested for not leaving after was asked to leave, which is slightly different story.

He would not be arrested if left after being asked.

He was asked to leave, and refused and said drag him out. That's what he was arrested for. That's the disorderly conduct There really isn't any room for any other interpretation here. That's why clickbait dishonest journalism like that sucks, we're now discussing pedantry like this rather than, "should he have been asked to leave in the first place? is this being enforced because of his stance on AI, or is there something going on here?"

It however is entirely normal in these types of meetings to require the audience to refrain from making any kind of comments or noise during a speaker's turn. And people regularly get kicked out of these, I've been to many - and you absolutely can get arrested if you refuse to leave.