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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.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @07:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @07:13PM (#1072545)

    He may be Satan's operative here on SN, but no way is he the big man. For one thing he wouldn't be so terrified all the time. Nah, Runaway is just a boot licker cosplaying a tough guy.

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