Posted on 04/29/2020 1:11:12 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
The ReopenNC rally had largely disbanded by 2 p.m., but about 100 protesters blocked Blount Street in front of the governor’s mansion. State Capitol Police closed the sidewalk, so protesters shouted from the street, demanding that Cooper reopen the state’s businesses.
They also took issue with the empty flagpoles in front of the mansion, asking why there were no flags flying. First Sgt. Michael Baker, spokesman for the N.C. Highway Patrol, said the flags were taken down as a precautionary measure due to a previous protest in which both the American and state flags were desecrated.
“The state Highway Patrol holds both flags in sanctity and their security remains our highest priority,” he said in an email to The News & Observer.
Smith struggled as police took her away.
In addition to Ashley Elaina Smith, 33, of Raleigh, police arrested Wendy Kath Macasieb, 53, of Catawba; Lisa Marks Todd, 55, of Raleigh; and Jonathan Warren, 35, of Indian Trail. All four were charged with violation of the executive order and resisting a public officer. Warren also faced a charge of injury to real property.
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Put down your bagpipes Mr Barr and get moving.
Rat Gov. Might help us take him out in November. The Senate meets. Mitch gets the virus and dies. A rat Governor in Ky. picks his replacement. Dangerous.
I think that essential constitutional rights were violated: The right of free assembly, and the right to petition government. I agree with you time for action Mr. Barr!
Its time....
We failed.
The state took ALL our rights and we hve done nada.
DOJ said they’d go after these violations. Let’s see them do it.
Put down your bagpipes Mr Barr and get moving.
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Who is the Barr person of whom you speak? Is he some kind of government official? /sarc
“The state Highway Patrol holds both flags in sanctity and their security remains our highest priority,”
If you’re not willing to display it, you don’t hold it in sanctity.
The right of free assembly, and the right to petition government.
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Where is the GOP senate and the DOJ? This is a grotesque violation of our most fundamental rights.
They says lots of things but do nothing.
The state took ALL our rights and we hve done nada.
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The people elect governors to be chief executives for state operations, not to act as dictators who subjugate its residents.
The voters in NC elected Cooper as Attorney General in 2001
and served in that position until elected by the voters to serve as
governor beginning Jan. 1, 2017. So he isn’tnew to the voters.
Stepped on the grass?
Huh? So these protesters aren't necessarily conservatives?
I don't recall ever hearing about Tea Party types or any other conservative groups going after flags.
Whuzzup with that?
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