Moral Monday at the N.C. General Assembly in Raleigh is gaining traction throughout North Carolina and in the national media. And last week, we added Witness Wednesday to our calendar of protests and civil-disobedience actions.
Police and detention personnel estimate that 84 were arrested at tonight's action for failure to disperse, criminal trespass, and violating General Assembly rules that prohibit singing, loud talking, and holding signs. Five buses took the arrestees to Wake County Detention Center, where they are at this time still being processed and officially charged.
This brings the cumulative total of arrests to 485. These are unique arrests, not the arrests of the same individuals more than once.
Also at tonight's protest were a gaggle of University of North Carolina researchers, who collected demographic data that challenged Gov. Pat McCrory's and other Republicans, who have stated publicly that the protests are being instigated by busloads of "outsiders" who are attempting what was done in the Wisconsin recall protests.
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