About a half-dozen Maine State Police troopers were on hand Tuesday night to monitor the Biddeford City Council meeting after an advocate for victims of sexual abuse said in an online message that he would “go for blood” during the public meeting at the high school.
The troopers stayed outside the building and were not immediately called inside. Before the meeting, the advocate, Robert Brown of New Hampshire, said he used “go for blood” in a metaphorical sense.
Brown has taken up the cause against Biddeford city officials, whom he accuses of covering up alleged sexual abuse by former city police officer Stephen Dodd. Boston businessman Matt Lauzon has accused Dodd of abusing him when Lauzon was a minor. He and his supporters have made outbursts and disrupted City Council meetings in the past, and are calling for the suspension of the city police chief.
About two dozen protesters were at Tuesday’s meeting, which was packed with city employees and union supporters fighting proposed city contracts.
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