Group opposed to NC stay-at-home order demands protection from arrest while protesting

[TexasTowelie]

After the arrest of a protester at Tuesday’s rally against Gov. Roy Cooper’s pandemic-spawned executive orders, a group opposing the strict social restrictions is seeking legal protection.

Lawyers Anthony Biller and James Lawrence, Raleigh-based lawyers with the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich representing ReOpenNC, sent a letter to Cooper and Wake County Board of Commissioners Chairman Greg Ford on Friday asking for assurances they’ll be able to protest.

According to the letter, the protesters want written clarification that protests are considered essential activities and thus not subject to executive orders’ restrictions on mass gatherings.

“Unfortunately,” Biller wrote, “these broad orders have created a reasonable apprehension the exercise of such fundamental rights will lead to detention, arrest and criminal prosecution.”

Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article242120346.html

[Jamastiene]

1. Fuck them.

They really have some audacity to ask for that while doing exactly the opposite of what they are supposed to do. They are the biggest jerks in the state for that nonsense.

[Coleman]

3. They should be free from arrest

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After all Vietnam war protesters were never arrested, and civil rights protesters were never arrested.

[safeinOhio]

5. Four dead in Ohio

[barbtries]

7. they weren't contagious

and did not represent a threat to others.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Really? Rosa Parks, those participating in sit-ins, and anybody

who even looked like a demonstrator in DC on May 1, 1971, were arrested. That's just to name a few cases of protestor arrests.

[Laelth]

10. I am pretty sure that post was sarcastic. n/t

-Laelth

[Coleman]

11. Thank you

I guess I was too subtle.

[Laelth]

12. Yep. Sometimes the heavy hammer is required.

I see that you edited. Wise.



-Laelth

[sinkingfeeling]

13. One can't be sure anymore. Just saw a post calling a great Biden ad, "terrible".

[Scarsdale]

4. I saw several of these protesters

with children along. They should be arrested for child endangerment. Nobody was wearing a mask. Fools will make this pandemic even worse by spreading it around. Idiots, all of them. Too bad these people find it so easy to procreate.

[safeinOhio]

6. Same folks would want their Constitutional rights if

they yelled fire in a crowded church and shot the people coming out in self-defense.

[ret5hd]

8. ...in a crowded mosque...

There, fixed it.