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struggle4progress

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8. Former NC candidate charged for fire

Reply to Jack Valentino (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 03:29 PM

Aug 2025

By Danielle Battaglia
August 26, 2025 1:43 PM

... Carey spent only a few hours in custody before being released Monday night, he said after returning to the area and appearing in a TikTok video to explain his arrest. He said U.S. Park Police charged him for lighting a fire in a park ...

Carey ran in 2022 to represent North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, but lost the Democratic primary. Rep. Chuck Edwards, a Republican, won the general election. In March, Carey was escorted by police out of a town hall hosted by Edwards for a shouting expletives at Edwards for his support of Trump ...

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article311853731.html#storylink=cpy

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Vet Arrested After Burning a Flag at the White House to Protest Trump's Order (for 'igniting an object') [View all] Jack Valentino Aug 2025 OP

good...and I agree with EVERYTHING he said! FirstLight Aug 2025 #1

Those who want to outlaw 'burning the flag' have always ignored the irony that Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #5

What he should have done was burn the flag in a completely legal manner and location, Ocelot II Aug 2025 #2

+ struggle4progress Aug 2025 #3

Not sure how I rec'd this repeatedly, but I'm gonna leave it . .. berniesandersmittens Aug 2025 #7

Yeah, well.... how far away from the White House would such a location be ?? Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #10

... "On August 25 at approximately 6:15 p.m., the U.S. Secret Service detained an individual struggle4progress Aug 2025 #4

36 CFR 2.13(a)(1) struggle4progress Aug 2025 #6

Former NC candidate charged for fire struggle4progress Aug 2025 #8

From another era: GJGCA Aug 2025 #9

Name rings a bell, but I have no further recollection, so I googled her Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #13

Different time, sometimes different reasons/outcomes........................... Lovie777 Aug 2025 #11

The excuses they use to cover this as something it's not will be immediate Torchlight Aug 2025 #12

"Technicalities"...... I think you might agree that laws against Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #14