SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill. (WLS) — Services are expected to return to Thornton Township Wednesday after steps by the board Tuesday night.

That action took place before a brawl broke out.

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Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard says the township shutdown is over and services will resume Wednesday.

But that board meeting Devolved to a new low after a fight broke out.

Jedidah Brown says although he no longer lives in the Chicago area, he still advocates for people here and would not have been at the meeting if residents had not asked him to be.

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Wednesday, Brown says he’s didn’t start the melee and is taking issue with being blamed for the violence.

Brown, along with his friend, are defending themselves.

It appears fists began to fly after Brown, an outspoken critic of Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard called her a expletive during a Thornton Township meeting Tuesday night.

“I was going back to my seat and then come on, made his explanation of a threat and comment I went back and then they started a fight,” Brown said.

But Brown says as he turned to walk back to his seat and not toward Henyard that the township supervisor’s boyfriend confronted him.

That’s when brown’s friend Levelle Redmond, a former Dolton worker who says he was fired by Henyard and is now homeless, was just protecting his friend.

“He was closing in and he turned around and said who are you talking to and I pushed them back and I tried to put my hand up to push him back,” Redmond said.

Police were called and Brown was removed by security.

The meeting was the first where the vacancy on the board was filled allowing the board to finally approve the township’s tax levy ordinance and insurance ending the shutdown.

South Holland police said no arrests were made.

ABC7 has reached out to Tiffany Henyard and her attorney for comment about the meeting and have not heard back.