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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMJ: Georgia arrests non protestor Nekima Williams - Charges Obstruction
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According to Mother Jones
"Senator, Why Are You Being Arrested?
Georgias Nikema Williams wasnt even part of Tuesdays Capitol protest, but state police hauled her off to jail anyway.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/georgia-state-senator-nikema-williams-arrest-1/
The morning of Tuesday, November 13, started out like many others for Nikema Williams. The Democratic state senator, who since 2017 has represented a diverse district covering a broad swath of Atlanta, showed up to work at the Georgia State Capitol for a special legislative session. A few hours later, the day became one shell never forget. I keep replaying this in my mind over and over, she told me. Never did I imagine my day was going to end in jail.
Furthermore, Nekima Williams was physically abused and she refused to be stripped searched.
As per MJ article:
On almost being strip searched: I had on a dress, and I didnt know that if you wear a dress that you are asked to remove your clothes. But thats what happened to me. An officer at the Fulton County Jail actually told me to remove my dress because she needed to make sure that I was not hiding anything in my vaginal cavity. I refused, because at that point I told her I didnt even know if I was being lawfully detained. And this felt incredibly invasive, and I was not stripping in front of everyone standing here. I went in and I saw all the other people that were arrested with me sitting there all waiting to know what they were actually charged with and why they were escorted out of their state Capitol. We finally learned that everyone there, including me, got one charge of disrupting the General Assembly. But apparently I was special and someone wanted to make a point with me because I got two charges: Disrupting the General Assembly as well as obstruction.
Georgia just had the Governor seat stolen; and Kemp wants everybody their his subjects - not a constituentcy.
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MJ: Georgia arrests non protestor Nekima Williams - Charges Obstruction (Original Post)
laserhaas
Nov 2018
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(1,893 posts)1. If the Washington Post story is true then she kinda was protesting
A video shared on Facebook by an advocacy group showed police officers trying to disperse the crowd and arresting some of the protesters. Williams can be seen locking arms with protesters before police arrested her.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2018/11/14/georgia-lawmaker-protesting-over-voter-counts-said-she-was-arrested-because-shes-black/
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