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G_j

(40,367 posts)
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 02:21 PM Jun 2017

NAACPs Rev. William Barber among those banned from NC Legislative Building

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article156649019.html

The Rev. William Barber, the N.C. NAACP president, has been banned from entering the N.C. Legislative Building after his arrest during a protest there on May 30.

The ban also applies to 31 other protesters arrested that day during a health care sit-in after they refused to clear the hallways outside legislative leaders’ offices. The ban was a condition of the protesters’ release from jail, set by Wake County magistrate Jeffrey L. Godwin as he charged them with second-degree trespassing.

General Assembly Police Chief Martin Brock said Friday that his agency didn’t ask the magistrate to set those conditions, but he said he plans to make the request for future arrests of protesters.

“I intend to instruct the officer to ask, especially if the person has been arrested before,” Brock said.

Asked why the bans are needed, Brock said, “If someone has been arrested two or three times, would it be reasonable to expect that they would be arrested again? That would be my observation.”

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article156649019.html#storylink=cpy
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NAACPs Rev. William Barber among those banned from NC Legislative Building (Original Post) G_j Jun 2017 OP
Godwin? Seems like there might be some relationship there. ewww... The Wielding Truth Jun 2017 #1
gauddam bill of rights onethatcares Jun 2017 #2

onethatcares

(16,166 posts)
2. gauddam bill of rights
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 03:51 PM
Jun 2017

the only one that applies full time is the second with these folks.

and they say they represent the people.

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