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DAYTONA BEACH -- When NAACP president Cynthia Slater was arrested at Black College Reunion by sheriff's deputies earlier this month, a top ranking officer of the Daytona Beach Police Department tried to come to her rescue. Lexie Williams, deputy police chief, ordered a sheriff's sergeant to "unarrest" Slater, but the sergeant refused, according to a sheriff's report obtained Friday by The News-Journal. The report details Williams' apparent anger when Slater, a popular activist, was handcuffed on State Road A1A on April 1. Deputies said she interfered with a traffic stop. She was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without...

The local NAACP president was arrested Saturday afternoon on misdemeanor charges after an altercation with deputies after she attempted to hand a flier to the driver of a car involved in a Black College Reunion traffic stop. Cynthia Slater, president of the Volusia County-Daytona Beach Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the past six years, was charged with two counts of resisting an officer without violence, disorderly conduct and obstruction of a street. But Slater and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office have very different views on what occurred on North Atlantic Avenue during the...