http://youtu.be/n86zK9wLzvs
I am so proud of these people:
RALEIGH “Jennifer Ferrell stopped so her husband could take her picture. Then she waved goodbye to her 3-year-old twins and marched into the Legislative Building to get handcuffed.
“I’m excited. I’m not nervous,” the 34-year-old Raleigh resident said as she walked in a line of demonstrators. “I’m passionate. I’m not crazy.”
For weeks now, Ferrell heard about protesters getting arrested at the statehouse to demonstrate against the Republican majority’s legislative agenda. And like many Monday, she felt compelled to add her voice to the chants and her wrists to the handcuffs. “I knew it was time to stop watching and do it myself,” she said.
Authorities arrested 151 people in the rotunda between the legislative chambers during the latest “Moral Monday” protest – the largest mass arrest since the N.C. NAACP began organizing the weekly civil disobedience events in late April.
The number is nearly the equivalent to the arrests at the four prior protests combined and brings the total above 300 this session.
The crowd of spectators also exploded, with hundreds rallying on the mall outside the legislative building, listening to speakers condemn Republican legislative leaders. “That’s extreme,” shouted the Rev. William Barber, the N.C. NAACP president, into a loud speaker as he listed legislation Republicans have approved this year. “That’s immoral, and we must stand up and wake up right here, right now.”
Police estimated the crowd at 1,000 – about five times more than the last protest – but organizers counted 1,600.
Thanks to Price Benowitz LLP, Maryland.
Next time they need 5,000 people present and 1,000 arrests. Unfortunately you know that this only stokes the baseless paranoia of the anti-American, anti-human republican party. I recall a recent article in the UK about how the mental afflictions creating right wing haters can be cured . . . like cancer . . . or rabies. I’d say that’d be the greatest single medical advancement in history.
Those arrested should NOT have their rights violated by being forced to give a DNA sample. Forced DNA samples should be obtained only from those who are arrested for committing a felony. That could easily become legislation and be passed by both Houses. Will it be? No, because the Republicans are too busy trying to repeal Obamacare and keep Gitmo open and the Democrats are too busy trying to be Republicans.