T. Greg Doucetteâs Crusade Against Hypocrisy, Police Violence, And Big Government
T. Greg Doucette in front of the Durham courthouse
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It was five days after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, and T. Greg Doucette was mad.Â
Doucette, a criminal defense and small business attorney in Durham, was angry with the way police were treating protesters: beating them, pepper-spraying them, and, in one case, even trampling them with a horse. And so, around noon on May 30, Doucette did what he often does when he wants to gripe: he tweeted, creating a thread of 10 videos showing instances of police brutality toward protesters.Â