Barber had pleaded not guilty,seeking to frame the case as a freedom of speech issue after he was arrested during a sit-inThe US religious leader and activist William Barber, a national figurehead in the campaign for a moral revival” in the country, and was convicted on Thursday of moment degree trespass for his role in a peaceful 2017 protest in North Carolina over healthcare access.
Barber had pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor,seeking to frame the case as a freedom of speech issue after he was arrested during a sit-in at the North Carolina state legislature that sprang from his Moral Mondays protest movement. Related: 50 years after Martin Luther King's death, a 'recent King' fights for justice Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com