[Updates at the bottom]
There were ten Moral Monday performers arrested this past Wednesday in the legislature building. Wednesday seems to be their new day, eh?
The only person getting press for being arrested is Reverend Barber. That hardly seemed fair to me, so here are the rest of them.
10 Arrested at Moral Monday on 6/17/15. http://t.co/ZJLHlTW5NJ #NCGA #ncpol And here they are… pic.twitter.com/dRWC8tYOOe
— A.P. Dillon – LL1885 (@LadyLiberty1885) June 18, 2015
Wake Mug Shots is a wonderful place.
Sad point of interest — According to a friend with a kid in High school, teenagers in North Carolina apparently use it these days to track teachers who are arrested. I wonder if the kids caught this one at Moral Monday.
Demonte Alford’s LinkedIn profile has his current position at “Guilford County Schools – Civics and Economics Teacher”.
Charges for the ‘Moral Monday on a Wednesday’ arrestees included second degree trespass, violating legislature building rules, resisting public officer and violating fire code.
It is worth noting that Theodore Spearman was also arrested at Moral Monday on April 29, 2013. Wake Mug shots has Spearman arrested on April 29th, 2015 with similar charges. Linda Willey joins Spearman in being arrested at Moral Monday in 2013.
More fun facts about these protesters can be found below in the list of their names and charges.
DEMONTE LEANDER ALFORD
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 120-32.1(B) VIOLATING LEGISLATIVE BUILDING RULES
“Guilford County Schools – Civics and Economics Teacher”
YARA THAIIR ALLEN
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 120-32.1(B) VIOL LEG BLDG RULES
06-17-2015 14-223 RESISTING PUBLIC OFFICER
“@ncnaacp organizer & cultural artist. & Leader of Rocky Mount NAACP”
WILLIAM JOSEPH BARBER
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 120-32.1(B) VIOLATING LEGISLATIVE BUILDING RULES
“Circus Ringmaster”
PHILLIP DAVID FONVILLE
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 120-32.1(B) VIOL LEGISLATIVE BLDG RULES
“Far Lefitst Photographer and Documentarian”
CURTIS EVERETTE GATEWOOD
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 120-32.1(B) VIOL LEGISLATIVE BLDG RULES
“Minister and 2nd Vice Chair of NC NAACP”
KOJO NANTAMBU
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 120-32.1(B) VIOL LEGISLATIVE BLDG RULES
“Non-Profit Organization Management Professional” and “Former Head of Charlotte NAACP” and Apparently a Mudslinger”
BARBARA LEA SMALLEY-MCMAHAN
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 143-138 VIOL OF FIRE CODE
“Pullen Memorial Baptist Church – Peace & Justice Committee”
THEODORE ANTHONY SPEARMAN
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 120-32.1(B) VIOLATING LEGISLATIVE BUILDING RULES
06-17-2015 14-223 RESISTING PUBLIC OFFICER
“Minister and Moral Circus Arrestee in 2013 and twice in 2015.”
TIMOTHY BUIE TYSON
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 120-32.1(B) VIOL LEGISLATIVE BLDG RULES
“Visiting Professor of American Christianity & Southern Culture at Duke” and apparently fan of being arrested with Barber, as he was at the Wake School Board meeting in June 2010.
LINDA EMMETT WILLEY
Charge(s):
06-17-2015 14-159.13 SECOND DEGREE TRESPASS
06-17-2015 143-138 VIOL OF FIRE CODE
“Retired school teacher” with a long list of board memberships, living in an expensive part of NC and “2013 Moral Monday arrestee”.
UPDATE: LOL
LOL! Moral Monday Circus Staff free from jail despite media stunt plan to refuse bail #ncga http://t.co/4FJXXeicdu pic.twitter.com/HH05yPcvpW
— A.P. Dillon – LL1885 (@LadyLiberty1885) June 18, 2015