A march from Wayman’s Chapel AME Church in Graham to the Alamance County Court Square on the last day of North Carolina early voting received national attention this week when law enforcement officers used pepper spray to disperse the crowd and made several arrests. Keep reading for more on this story and other news. Graham. On Saturday, a group of roughly 200 people participated in the “I Am Change” march, proceeding from Wayman’s Chapel AME Church to Court Square with a police escort. The march participants planned to rally on the courthouse grounds and then continue on to an early voting polling location. Video from the event shows that participants knelt in the street in a traffic circle outside the courthouse where a confederate statute is located. Graham Police Department Lieutenant Daniel Sisk said at a press conference that event organizers had been informed that they were not officially permitted to block traffic as part of the march and rally, but that an agreement had been reached whereby marchers would be allowed to kneel in the traffic circle for close to 9 minutes to recognize the killing of George Floyd earlier this year in Minneapolis. Sisk said that a police officer was assaulted when he tried to prevent people from continuing to block the street beyond the allotted time and an announcement to clear the street, and that assault caused police to deploy pepper spray to disperse what was then deemed an unlawful assembly. There have been varying reports from people [...]
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