WATCH: Residents slam Rawlings for skipping Kiest Park meeting to avoid gay-rights protest

Below is a rather unflattering report from WFAA’s Jonathan Betz about Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ decision to skip a “Meet the Mayor” community meeting in Kiest Park on Tuesday to avoid a gay-rights protest — a decision which some are calling “cowardly.”

“Although folks here did not meet the mayor,” Betz says at the end, “many say they still learned a lot about him.”

Just ouch.