Posts Tagged 'CMPD'

This week in court 9/26/16

The week is not over yet, but it has already been a rollercoaster.

More protests, more marching, more arrests of peaceful protestors.

I am working alongside several other wonderful lawyers to provide legal assistance to many of the arrested protestors.  Most of the people I have met are educated and do not have a criminal record.  They are decent people who were arrested for invoking their constitutional rights to speak out against injustice.  This will be a long struggle and this cases ...

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This week in court 9/19/16

What a week.  I don’t think Charlotte has seen anything like this week in quite sometime.

I came home from an Dismantling Racism workshop Tuesday evening to learn that there had been ANOTHER CMPD Officer involved shooting and death earlier in the day.  To no surprise, the victim was a Black Male.  I turned on the TV to see pictures of a small protest going on in the University area.  I watched the sights and sounds for most of the night.

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