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Protestors with a permit teargassed on the way to vote.

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In other totally-not-a-slide-into-fascism news, peaceful protestors who had a permit to march were teargassed on the way to vote.

Peaceful march to the polls in North Carolina is met with police pepper spray and arrests, causing outcry on eve of election

They have elections in all those shithole dictatorial countries too. They just make sure the wrong people don't vote.

The participants in Saturday’s “I Am Change” march had intended to conclude at an early-voting site to emphasize turnout in the final days of the presidential campaign. Those plans were thrown into disarray when law-enforcement officers in riot gear and gas masks insisted demonstrators move off the street and clear county property, despite a permit authorizing their presence.

 

Reply to: Re:Ok

    (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday November 02 2020, @05:58PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 02 2020, @05:58PM (#1072054)

    As I understand it, it was a "Souls to the Polls" event. It's a bunch of black people. Voting. While I gather that can be rather terrifying to Republicans, it is what most of us ordinary folk consider peaceful.

    I see North Carolina has early voting through October 31 [ncvoter.org], the date of the protest.

    But since there was voting there rather than just a protest outside a future polling place, that means that laws on buffer zones outside North Carolina polling places apply - nothing within 50 feet. The Washington Post photo with the rather unprofessional police officers spraying pepper spray shows the protestors fairly close to the entrance of a building (I'd say within 50 feet). If this building is a polling place, then they are too close.

    Needless to say, I need more than your say-so that something untoward happened here.

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