When a protester jumped on stage during the meeting on the Southeast Side, he was first warned but then tempers in the crowd soon erupted.

“You will have to get down,” Chicago Park District Board Vice President Avis LaVelle, the town hall moderator, told the protester during the meeting at the South Shore Cultural Center.

But the protester didn’t listen. And within seconds, the stage where Emanuel sat — his second of three town hall meetings about the city’s budget  — became a pulpit for about 20 protesters.  MORE