Authorities: 73 arrests at NC legislative protests
Source: Associated Press via SFgate
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More than 70 protesters were taken to jail during the weekly Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina General Assembly, bringing the total number arrested in the legislative session to 925.
In a change from past weeks, state House leaders moved their Monday night session to 4 p.m., three hours earlier than usual. That left the protesters massing shortly before 7 p.m. in the atrium outside the legislative chambers, singing and chanting in a largely empty building.
Though the schedule change had been announced last week, North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber accused the Republican majority of trying to duck the protesters.
"You can run, but you can hide," Barber chided lawmakers in addressing the crowd. "When we come here and they are here, they want to drag us out. Then when they knew the national TV was on them, they tucked their tails and ran" ...
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They'd not only be left alone by the fascist thug authorities, but given favorable national coverage. 
on Monday nights there is an evening session of the NC General Assembly and by entering the assembly building (which is normally open to the public) around 6 pm--they are arrested for second degree trespassing and failure to disperse ("unlawful assembly"
. They are bused en masse to the city detention center, processed and released after several hours. In what has become a Monday ritual, 920 arrests have been made, and nobody is arrested more than once.
This video shows those who have agreed to be arrested entering the building:
A legal team that thinks the arrest of non-violent protest violates their first amendment rights will represent the protesters and most of those arrested had unsecured bonds that allowed them to make bail.
http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_4fcb2bbc-c35f-11e2-9a9b-0019bb30f31a.html
