Five people were arrested outside of the North Carolina governor’s mansion Thursday night as hundreds rallied to protest a new law that overturns all statewide nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people. The five were arrested for impeding the flow of traffic and with resisting, delaying or obstructing officers according to WRAL News, after they chained themselves together and refused to disperse.
Jade Brooks, 30, Jessica Jude, 27, Salma Mirza, 28, Noah Rubin-Blose, 32, and Ngoc Tran, 20, were arrested and released based on a written promise to appear in court.
The new law prohibits local communities from passing human rights ordinances that go further than the state version, thereby overturning all local nondiscrimination protections that include LGBTQ people and veterans. The legislature rushed the bill through a special session after Charlotte passed an ordinance that included protections for transgender people and the Governor signed it within hours.
“All of these people are angry. They are upset,” said Micky Bee of the Transgender Law Center told the station. “They have been left out of the democratic process.”
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