Hundreds of observers crowded onto the third-floor balcony of the N.C. General Assembly to peacefully support the 101 civil-disobedience volunteers being arrested one floor below.
This brings the cumulative total of Moral Monday arrests to 857. (These are unique arrests; no Moral Monday civil-disobedience arrestees have been taken into custody more than once.)
Scores of people were treated for heat-related issues, as temperatures soared well into the 90s and high humidity made it difficult for many people to handle the outdoor rally crowded onto Halifax Mall. Occasionally, physicians who had come to risk arrest dashed into the crowd to attend to individuals who fainted; at least one person had to be revived with a portable defibrillator by emergency responders at the scene and was then taken to a nearby hospital.