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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. ....
The Alamance County Sheriff’s office cannot prohibit protests at the courthouse Confederate monument, and demonstrators cannot be arrested for swearing at deputies, under a court settlement finalized Tuesday. The NAACP and demonstrators sued the City of Graham, Alamance County commissioners, and Alamance Sheriff Terry Johnson in federal court last year over limits on protests outside the courthouse and around the Confederate monument. The settlement settles the lawsuit and says demonstrators are allowed in areas that the Sheriff’s Office made off limits last summer. Graham repealed its ordinance, which strictly limited protests, soon after the lawsuit was filed. “We are happy to have negotiated this settlement agreement for racial justice demonstrators who were denied their First Amendment rights by the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, but if law enforcement officials had followed the U.S. Constitution this settlement would not have been needed in the first pl ....
“One thing is certain: somebody is not telling the truth,” UNC Black Pioneer Mel Watt said. “I wish there was some way to get to the bottom of that.” ....
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