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Witnesses said nearly 40 people took part on Tuesday in a protest in downtown Graham at which two people were arrested.
The protest formed in reaction to the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. by deputies of the Pasquotank County Sheriff s Office in Elizabeth City, N.C. Graham Police charged two of the protestors with violating the city’s new protest ordinance.
Protesters walked around Court Square, according to Elon University professor and photographer Tony Crider, and stopped at Sesquicentennial Park, often referred to as Wyatt Outlaw Park. There were no counter-protesters or any obvious police presence until about 7:20 p.m., when Graham Police officers came out and started distributing flyers with information about the protest ordinance. The city ordinance requires a permit or notice of protest for a demonstration of 10 or more downtown.
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The towers, also called
Pillars of the Community, commemorate the Bayou City s 150th anniversary.
By
Emma Schkloven
2/8/2021 at 11:00am
Published in the December 2020 issue of
Houstonia
Itâs impossible to miss the seven towering pillars as you stroll along the Sesquicentennial Park promenade or across Preston Street Bridge. By day, the looming 70-foot structures that make up
Seven Wonders echo the cityâs impressive skyline, while they double as enormous lanterns that bathe the nearby Buffalo Bayou and the back of the Wortham Center in a warm glow by night. Yet
Seven Wonders, also called
Pillars of the Community, is far more than just a hat-tip to local architecture or a ginormous night light. It is designed to act as a time capsule, a history book, and a crystal ballâcapturing a single moment of Houston life, commemorating a historic event, and looking toward the cityâs future all at once.
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“We truly want the ACLU’s feedback on this,” Raleigh lawyer Anthony Biller told the Graham City Council at its January meeting.
Elizabeth Haddix, managing attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law represented the Alamance NAACP in its successful suit against the city over its old restrictive protest rules. She told the Times-News the NAACP’s legal team contacted the city’s lawyers to tell them the new rules were also unconstitutional, giving the city “a chance to fix it first.”
The new ordinance, which would also apply to parades and big outdoor events on city property, would require a permit for a gathering of 10 or more people or a parade of three or more vehicles. It would also designate a “free-speech zone” on the lawn of City Hall where groups of 25 or fewer could demonstrate without a permit, and would recognize similar zones created in town by other governments like Alamance County.
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