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Agreement reached on protests at North Carolina courthouse
April 23, 2021
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BURLINGTON, N.C. (AP) Civil rights groups have settled a dispute with a North Carolina sheriff s office over courthouse protests against a Confederate monument.
The settlement guarantees that the grounds of the old Alamance County Courthouse must remain open to the public to exercise their First Amendment rights, requires the sheriff s office to acknowledge that swear words are protected speech even if they re directed at law enforcement officers, and also requires sheriff s employees to undergo racial bias training.
If the Alamance County Sheriff s Office had followed the U.S. Constitution, the settlement would not have been needed in the first place, said Elizabeth Haddix, managing attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in a statement.
Judge rules in favor of activists to protest in front of N.C. courthouse By Andrew Barnett | April 21, 2021 at 8:13 PM EDT - Updated April 21 at 8:13 PM
ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - United
States District Court
Judge Catherine Eagles entered a
consent order and judgment today designed to protect the First Amendment rights of peaceful protestors to protest in front of the Alamance County courthouse, lawyers for the plaintiffs have announced.
Members of the Alamance County NAACP and eight individual plaintiffs filed suit last summer after Alamance County illegally banned protest near a confederate monument located in front of the historic county courthouse in response to increased demonstrations against white supremacy.
NC sheriff s office changing its tasers in wake of Daunte Wright shooting. Here s how Simone Jasper, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Apr. 22 A North Carolina law enforcement department is making changes to its tasers after the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota.
The Alamance County Sheriff s Office is putting yellow tape on tasers to help the public and other agencies tell them apart from guns, spokesperson Michelle Mills said Thursday in a phone interview.
Photos shared with McClatchy News show a bright-colored adhesive similar to duct tape attached to the stun guns.
The department told media outlets it s taking steps to prevent a tragedy similar to the one police said unfolded this month in a Minneapolis suburb.