Verdicts and dispositions
Alamance News reporter Thomas Murawski s charge of resisting a public officer was dismissed – he was arrested Oct. 31 while taking photos of Graham Police clearing Court Square during the I Am Change march.
Cary Kirk Griffin was convicted of two counts of resisting a public officer and one count of second-degree trespass.
Elizabeth Duford was found not guilty of resisting a public officer.
Avery Markel Harvey was convicted of disorderly conduct by impeding traffic, but not guilty of resisting a public officer.
Rikeah Nashea Johnson was not guilty of resisting a public officer.
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One afternoon in mid-July, hundreds of people gathered around a stage in front of the historic gray stone courthouse at the heart of the small town of Graham, North Carolina. They were listening to a song of protest.
“We don’t want to die,” a local musician sang out to the diverse crowd.
The group wanted the removal of a marble statue of a Confederate soldier that had stood watch over the town square since white citizens of Alamance County erected it in 1914. But protesters in this central North Carolina county seat were seeking much more.
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The group wanted the removal of a marble statue of a Confederate soldier that had stood watch over the town square since white citizens of Alamance County erected it in 1914. But protesters in this central North Carolina county seat were seeking much more.
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NC GOP PUSHES FOR HARSHER SCHOOL SUSPENSION GUIDELINES: North Carolina Republican lawmakers want to toughen how school discipline is handled, but Democrats warn that a change could lead to more minority students being suspended and dropping out. The N.C. House approved legislation on Thursday that removes language from state law listing violations not serious enough for a long-term school suspension. That includes inappropriate language, noncompliance, dress code violations and minor physical alterations. Those four examples were added to the law in 2011 in a bipartisan effort to reduce long-term suspensions of more than 10 days. The belief was that if students were in school more, they’d be less likely to have poor grades and drop out when they fell behind.