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(Photo: Fayetteville Police Department) Surveillance video released by police shows an SUV driving around a traffic circle in Fayetteville, N.C., passing close to a group of Black Lives Matter protesters, May 7, 2021. Law enforcement officials said that lane is not currently open for traffic.
(FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.) A North Carolina judge has been charged with misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly almost hitting Black Lives Matter protesters with his car.
In a video of the May 7 incident released by police, an SUV reportedly driven by North Carolina Appeals Court Judge John M. Tyson appears to drive around a traffic circle past protesters, then move into the innermost lane of the circle near where protesters are standing and drive past them again.
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“I will say I’ve reviewed the surveillance footage,” he said. “It will be labeled Defense Exhibit #1.”
The video shows an SUV driving in a lane that is closed to traffic and painted with a mural adorned with the words “Black Lives Do Matter” and “End Racism Now.” One of the protesters, Myah Warren, testified that Tyson was driving the SUV and that it almost hit her and others. The group organizing the protest, FAM: Fayetteville Activist Movement, noted:
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