Thread by @FordFischer

Here in #ElizabethCity, there is a curfew now from midnight to 6am.

Police used giant dumpster to block main parking lot near meetup.

So crowd has assembled in parking lot instead of parking there.

#AndrewBrown

With the police having blocked off the parking lot near the public safety building, the community is using it as a barbecue location.

People are happy, and cops are staying away.

Last night, I filmed one officer draw a handgun as he searched this alley for escaped curfew breakers.

They found these bags and brought them into the street (see my tweet from last night.)

Those bags actually are still here right now.

https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1388024978080141312

Press excited as there’s a fire to film.

😲🎥
🍔 🌭
🔥 🔥

(Really just poking fun, it’s a great picture)

Last night, the curfew would have been beginning in five minutes.

Tonight, things positive and deliciously smokey.

Curfew is midnight instead.

Police officer possess for photos and meets with community holding barbecue.

Dinner is served.

As community barbecues outside the public safety building (which houses the Elizabeth City Police and Pasquotank Country Sheriff’s office), staff inside watch the Denzel Washington film “Unstoppable.”

Lydia McCaskill - General of the Original Black Panthers of Gastonia, North Carolina - spoke to the crowd earlier tonight.

She was arrested Tuesday night but is committed to participate tonight no matter how the community wants to do it.

Curfew is one hour away.

As we enter the 11pm tv news block, local cable outlets do top of the hour live hits.

It’s an hour to curfew, a couple dozen people remain spread out around the parking lot.