Sunday, November 01, 2020

It's Hot In Alamance County!

It's getting worse in the country. Graham, North Carolina had unrest due to police violence.

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Do not trust the polls! 

Understand that we don’t want to make the mistake of believing that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have this locked. We have to make sure we get many folks out to the polls. 

We must vote like our lives depend on it! 

BE WARNED THE IMAGES AND VIDEO ARE DISTURBING!

The actions of the Alamance County Sheriff and Graham Police are criminal.

There was a peaceful march to the polls on Saturday and it turns out that the Republican sheriff Terry S. Johnson and his boys decided pepper-spray people -- including children.

A racially diverse group of about 200 people walked with a police escort from Wayman’s Chapel AME Church to Court Square in the city of Graham, North Carolina. They held a rally encouraging people to vote. The event was sponsored by Rev. Greg Drumwright, a Burlington civil rights activist who leads the Citadel Church in Greensboro.

Three politicians participated in some of the events. The mayor of Burlington, Ian Baltutis, Democratic candidate for county commissioner Dreama Caldwell and Democratic school board candidate Seneca Rodgers.

At one point of the march, they held a moment of silence for the death of George Floyd and many other people killed in police custody.





























After the moment of silence, the Alamance County boys ordered people to clear the road.

Soon, the boys under the order of the sheriff decided to pepper spray the crowd and soon began arresting people. Several children in the crowd were affected by the pepper spray.

One witness, Melanie Mitchell said her 5-year old and 11-year old daughter were pepper-sprayed just after the moment of silence.

She said that the Graham Police approached the crowd assembled in the street and told them to move onto the sidewalk and soon began spraying pepper spray towards the ground.

“My 11-year old was terrified,” Mitchell said. “She doesn’t want to come down to Graham anymore.”

The crowd then moved to the courthouse where speeches were given. But before the speeches concluded, the county boys began dismantling the sound system and telling the crowd to disperse.

The “I Am Change” march was billed in part as a get-out-the-vote initiative as well as a demonstration against police violence. 

Police spray tear gas and pepper spray on peaceful protesters.

Drumwright said that the march was non-partisan.

“This march is encouraging people to go to the polls and vote for change,” he said in a presser in Burlington.

He said that his arrest will not deter him or those who support him from peaceful protesting.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice laid out nine ways in which Alamance County sheriff Terry S. Johnson and his deputies violated people’s constitutional rights in the county through “a pattern or practice of discriminatory policing.”

Graham Police Department St... by Zachery Eanes



The DOJ under the Obama administration, filed a lawsuit over the accusations, but a Republican-appointed federal judge threw out the suit. The DOJ appealed, then agreed to drop its legal threats in exchange for Johnson agreeing to his actions including “bias-free policing” training for his deputies.

Johnson has been running unopposed as a Republican.







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