As soon as council president Sam Adams adjourned tonight’s meeting, I got in a few quick words with Randy Leonard—who’s “stunned” and was nearly speechless, but hopes they can still hammer out a process a council majority can agree with—and Erik Sten, also shocked, who also notes that he’s never seen someone just walk out of a council meeting before. Despite today’s events, it seems Sten is still up for working on a council-oriented process, but he does want to talk with all of his colleagues, Potter included. (Mayor’s got some explainin’ to do!)

In the hall, I ran into Promise King, who stopped me to chat. I told him I had to go find the mayor, but he told me I was out of luck—the Mayor had just walked out of the building. It seems like he popped into his office just long enough to grab his things, then split.