Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – As so often happens, the biggest news story coming out of Tuesday’s Springfield city council meeting was something not on the agenda.

During the public comment portion of Tuesday’s meeting, citizen James Meister responded to the Black Lives Matter movement by saying, “All lives matter.” said that’s considered a racist comment these days.

The Sonya Massey killing, at the hands of a now former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, has frustrated community leaders such as Springfield police chief Ken Scarlette.

“It may not be my fault what transpired,” Scarlette told the council.” But we will bear the shame and the guilt for what a fellow law enforcement officer did in our community.”

“There’s 29 county board members,” said Ald. Shawn Gregory. “And all of us are getting the heat.” Springfield has ten aldermen.

Former deputy Sean Grayson is jailed and facing first-degree murder charges for Massey’s killing.

Unrelated: at the beginning of Tuesday’s meeting fire chief Ed Canny read a statement from Mayor Misty Buscher that her husband, Mike, has cancer, and he’s hospitalized for a post-surgery complication.