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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocratic state Rep. Park Cannon has a great defense to her arrest
Democratic state Rep. Park Cannon is setting up a great defense to the arrest and charges. I notices that in the various videos you can hear Rep. Park Cannon stating that she is a member of the legislature. There is a good reason for this.
Link to tweet
She is seen yelling in one video: "There is no reason for me to be arrested. I am a legislator!".....
Georgia's Constitution says lawmakers "shall be free from arrest during sessions of the General Assembly" except for treason, felony or breach of the peace.
Cannon was charged and brought to a local jail. By 11 p.m. she had been released, according to her attorney Gerald A. Griggs, who spoke to a group of reporters and supporters outside the jail.
Griggs told the crowd that Cannon sustained bruising from her arrest. He was joined outside the jail by Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, who visited Cannon in jail. He told the group that he is also Cannon's pastor.
Rep. Park Cannon is being careful to preserve this defense if this case goes to trial
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Rep. Park Cannon is clearly going to contest this arrest and perhap sue KKKemp and his goon squad.
This will be fun to watch
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)bahboo
(16,234 posts)for this shit...
leftieNanner
(14,998 posts)getagrip_already
(14,250 posts)I assume she could legally have been removed from the building without being arrested, but does "pounding" on a door (knocking?) or "screaming" (talking while black?) actually rise to the legal definition of breaching the peace?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I saw footage from the room where Kemp was signing this toxic piece of legislative sludge, and while he was yakking about what a great day it was for Georgians (or some similar crapulousness), he was interrupted by Rep. Cannon's knocking, turned toward the door, and said "What's that?" So, breach of the peace.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)that's probably what they'll charge her with.
crickets
(25,896 posts)Who knew knocking on a door while a representative of the state was such a crime? /s
James48
(4,416 posts)...that is a felony.
Its knocking on a door while BLACK that makes it a felony.
crickets
(25,896 posts)IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,362 posts)OMGWTF
(3,901 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,362 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)or at least they did in the 1970's.
But mine has a curly "W" on it.
Go Nats!!!
Nexus2
(1,261 posts)peppertree
(21,530 posts)Legislating While Black.
About the worst thing you can be charged with in the Deep South.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)Knocking While Black. That's a felony in Georgia, I believe.
FBaggins
(26,697 posts)Resisting arrest is a felony... but if you werent allowed to arrest her without a felony... how could she resist?
GB_RN
(2,267 posts)Relevance, you ask? Fani Willis is the DA. She should know politically motivated and bogus charges when she sees them. I doubt shell even let this go to trial.
But, Ive been wrong before
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)DallasNE
(7,392 posts)So how is this a defense? But how is what she did not protected free speech? Plus, it now looks like a knock on the door is a more serious crime than insurrection. How is that for standing justice on its head? Or should I say Republican justice.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)There will be a motion to dismissed filed in this case based on this provision in the Georgia Constitution
NutmegYankee
(16,178 posts)Knocking on a door would not be considered a felony when such wording was developed. Felonies were crimes like murder, rape, burglary, kidnapping and arson.
It is a perversion of the criminal system that minor crimes have become felonies.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)I hope she sues them and wins a bundle.
vapor2
(1,215 posts)for locking the doors AND liars for telling us this isn't voter suppression. These losers clearly can't play fair
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)I hope she wins HUGE! This should be turned right around and used to bludgeon that racist POS.
barbtries
(28,702 posts)the machine in AL put Don Siegelman away for years. I think GA has a much higher national profile, which is a good thing, but still. Scary.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)This arrest was illegal
Link to tweet
"She's facing up to eight years in prison," Cannon's attorney, Gerald Griggs, told CNN's Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight."
"We're planning on having conversations with the district attorney, hopefully to convince her to dismiss the charges. But if not, we are going to take this case all the way to jury trial and convince the jury that she did not violate any code section of the Georgia code and that she should not have been arrested."
Referencing circulated video footage of the incident, Griggs added, "We are continuing to get the rest of the videos and we're going to fight this case all the way to jury trial."
ThatJustHappened
(78 posts)... this defense serves to muddle
the fact that there was no cause for arrest -- period
whether the person arrested for Knocking While Black
was Black, White, Woman, Man, Legislator,
Dog Catcher, DEM, GOP, Homeless, etc
it's simple false arrest.
Looking forward to the Civil Suit and Settlement.