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TexasTowelie

(116,749 posts) Tue Mar 16, 2021, 04:32 PM Mar 2021

NC lawmakers push for rioters to face felony charges. So what is considered a riot?

RALEIGH -- Participating in a riot in any form in North Carolina could soon leave you susceptible to felony charges.

On Monday, Sen. Danny Britt, a Lumberton Republican, filed Senate Bill 300, labeled the Criminal Justice Reform bill. The 12-page bill includes a provision that would increase the punishment for anyone participating in a riot from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class H felony.

“We want folks to know that it is our opinion that these crimes are serious,” Britt told The News & Observer on Tuesday. “We hope that this will convey to them the need to actually prosecute crimes at a serious level.”

But North Carolina laws on rioting are vague. Britt’s bill leaves open to interpretation how someone could face felony charges for rioting and opens the door to further racial discrimination, said Ann Webb, senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.

Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article249019090.html

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NC lawmakers push for rioters to face felony charges. So what is considered a riot? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP

Let me translate deplorable speak.... TheRealNorth Mar 2021 #1

I imagine..... Cinnamonspice Mar 2021 #2

Color me dubious Claire Oh Nette Apr 2021 #3

TheRealNorth

(9,629 posts)

1. Let me translate deplorable speak....

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Mar 16, 2021, 05:14 PM

Mar 2021

Black person marching together to vote early = riot
Proud boy storming the U.S. Capitol = patriot doing patriotic things.

Cinnamonspice

(163 posts)

2. I imagine.....

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Mar 21, 2021, 12:34 PM

Mar 2021

If the protesters are just standing there saying black people should have rights, it's rioting.

If it's a white person with a gun demanding less COVID restrictions, it's free speech. Well, according to social media anyway.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)

3. Color me dubious

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Apr 2, 2021, 08:49 AM

Apr 2021

Last summer's BLM marches in support of social justice to protest of rogue police acting as judge, jury, and executioner of Black citizens were "riots."

Angry supporters of the losing candidate for President stormed the Capitol with stun guns and hockey sticks, used American flags as spears, erected a gallows, shouted Hang Mike Pence, broke windows to gain entry, murdered Officer Sicknick, shat in the hallowed halls of Congress, assaulted CPD officers with bear spray, and left four others dead. But that was a peaceful protest.

Color me dubious.

Next, any time three people of color gather, will they call that a riot, too?

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