Mike Malloy - Arrests In North Carolina For Distributing Voting Rights Leaflets

[hschulein]

The stars of North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement took the stage on Labor Day at Charlotte’s Marshall Park to condemn the state’s record on voter suppression and racial profiling, and urge the community to organize and turn out at the polls this November. Just a few hundred feet away, police cuffed and arrested local LGBT activist and former State Senate candidate Ty Turner as he was putting voting rights information on parked cars.

“They said they would charge me for distributing literature,” Turner told ThinkProgress when he was released a few hours later. “I asked [the policeman] for the ordinance number [being violated], because they can’t put handcuffs on you if they cannot tell you why they’re detaining you. I said, ‘Show me where it’s illegal to do this.’ But he would not do it. The officer got mad and grabbed me. Then he told me that I was resisting arrest!”

Full story: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/02/3477768/police-arrest-young-black-politician-at-moral-mondays-rally/

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[Thinkingabout]

1. But it okay for the KKK to organize, makes no sense.

At least voting is a right.

[Fred Sanders]

2. You can resist arrest if your protection against arbitrary detention is violated, when you

ask for the grounds for your detention. Asking for your rights is legal, not granting them is the crime.

[drray23]

3. charged for distributing litterature ?

What a heinous crime. Imagine that. Distributing litterature !

Its amazing the crap cops come up with to arrest people.