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No Charges for Georgia Lawmaker Arrested During Signing of Voting Law


Atlanta Democrat Park Cannon was arrested last month after she repeatedly knocked on the door of Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s office as he prepared to sign a controversial bill overhauling Georgia’s elections.
State Rep. Park Cannon, D-Atlanta, is placed in handcuffs by Georgia State Troopers after being asked to stop knocking on a door that leads to Gov. Brian Kemp’s office at the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta on March 25, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
ATLANTA (CN) An Atlanta-area district attorney declined Wednesday to prosecute a Georgia lawmaker who was arrested last month for knocking on Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s door as he gave a televised speech before signing a controversial new voting bill into law. ....

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America's New Jim Crowism | Trinidad and Tobago News Blog


April 06, 2021
On March 25, Georgia’s Representative Park Cannon, a Black woman and state senator, was arrested for knocking on the door of the private office of Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, as he and six white men signed a law that effectively suppressed the right of Black people to vote in local, state and federal elections. Cannon was charged with two felony counts for obstruction of law enforcement and disruption of the General Assembly that is likely to send her to prison for eight years if she is found guilty.
Georgia’s new law requires photo identification to vote absentee by mail, the source of many of the Democrats’ votes in state and federal elections. In the last presidential election, 1.3 million Georgians voted with absentee ballots; 65 percent of whom voted for Joe Biden. The new bill makes it a crime to offer water or food to voters waiting in line. Longer lines are often found in “the poorer, densely populated communities that tend to vot ....

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Trinicenter.com - Dr Selwyn Cudjoe - America's New Jim Crowism


By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe
April 06, 2021
On March 25, Georgia s Representative Park Cannon, a Black woman and state senator, was arrested for knocking on the door of the private office of Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, as he and six white men signed a law that effectively suppressed the right of Black people to vote in local, state and federal elections. Cannon was charged with two felony counts for obstruction of law enforcement and disruption of the General Assembly that is likely to send her to prison for eight years if she is found guilty.
Georgia s new law requires photo identification to vote absentee by mail, the source of many of the Democrats votes in state and federal elections. In the last presidential election, 1.3 million Georgians voted with absentee ballots; 65 percent of whom voted for Joe Biden. The new bill makes it a crime to offer water or food to voters waiting in line. Longer lines are often found in the poorer, densely populated communit ....

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