Henderson County (Nov 3, 2023) - U.S. Congressman Chuck Edwards on Thursday condemned the “Until We’re All Free” event funded by taxpayer dollars scheduled for noon Friday on the campus of the University of North Carolina Asheville and urged the university to cancel the event that he said is designed to normalize and espouse hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric.
UNC Asheville released a statement Friday morning, Nov. 3, less than 24 hours after Rep. Chuck Edwards called on the university to cancel what he claimed was an
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Reenah Golden remembers people taking shelter in a church after hours of marching and protesting the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man suffocated while being restrained by Rochester police officers last year.
Months later, Golden said the chemical dispersants and other tactics come to mind when she saw law enforcement’s response to President Donald Trump supporters marauding the U.S. Capitol, one of American democracy’s most hollowed spaces.
Egged on by Trump, the mob broke through police lines at the Capitol. Rioters were then seen waving flags in the building, sitting in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and storming the floor of the Senate.