Thread by @annehelen

Here's some additional footage from the Graham, NC March to the Polls where police pepper sprayed multiple participants—including young children &, as seen here, members of the Voter Protection Legal Team. This was sent to me by a member of that team who was subsequently arrested

For more on what happened, here's a detailed local news story: newsobserver.com/news/local/art…

The person who was arrested is a volunteer for the Democratic Party, working as a Poll Observer for Legal Protection Team. And they were *arrested.* They can't speak further because they have a pending court case. This is voting in 2020.

Here's another video a bystander sent me. Shot from a different angle — this is the first half. "Unlawful assembly" on the sidewalk

Here's the second half. Again, this preceded the arrest of volunteer poll observer officials:

The thing that strikes me, watching these again this morning, is the incredibly casual deployment of the pepper spray (tear gas?) as a means of creating overall menace