Violent: Intense or extreme, especially in emotion.

He's using capitals to specifically show intense emotion. Violent doesn't always mean physical violence.

It's unusually forceful for a planning commission objection or public comment, which is what Demsas is trying to communicate.

Compared to public hearings where I live, which often devolve into shouting with people forcibly removed from the room, this seemed very mild. They even said "please" and "thank you".

It's "violent" in the sense of "I violently agree with you". I read a lot of public comment (I'm peripherally involved in local government) and language like "please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily zoning overlay projects" is unusually forceful; it's not even attempting to persuade, but rather making a direct demand.

At any rate, none of this is any kind of woke words-as-violence drama; it's a word being used in a colloquial sense that people here happen to have an unproductive hair trigger about.

Maybe they have private army or something they plant to use. You never know...

Feel free to brush up, the word was used correctly.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/violentl...

feel free to read your own link lol

I did. Did you? In fact, the usage is literally listed as an example.

>They are violently opposed to the plans.

in a very strong or vigorous manner

"he coughed violently"