GA SENATOR NIKEMA WILLIAMS ARRESTED FOR PROTECTING VOTING RIGHTS

GEORGIA STATE SENATOR NIKEMA WILLIAMS ARRESTED FOR PROTECTING VOTING RIGHTS:


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**** BREAKING: @NikemaForSenate just got released from jail after being arrested at today’s #counteveryvote rally at the Georgia Capitol. “I am incredibly proud and will continue to stand with the citizens of Georgia to demand that their votes be counted.”

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**** GEORGIA SENATE DEMOCRATS TO DISCUSS ARREST OF SEN. NIKEMA WILLIAMS


Georgia Senate Democrats are poised to talk about the arrest of Sen. Nikema Williams during a protest Tuesday at the state Capitol, where demonstrators demanded every vote in Georgia's midterm race be counted.

Georgia Senate Democrats are poised to talk about the arrest of State Sen. Nikema Williams during the protest Tuesday at the state Capitol.

The press conference is happening at 11:30 a.m. at the Senate Press Room.

Sen. Williams was among more than a dozen people who were arrested Tuesday night in the rotunda. The protesters demanded every vote to be counted in several tight races.

In a video provided to 11Alive News, at least one sign in the crowd read, "Stacey Abrams IS GOVERNOR" and another "COUNT EVERY VOTE" as protesters chanted "No justice, no peace."

Police took Williams and the others to the Fulton County Jail, where she later bonded out. She was greeted by a small crowd of supporters outside the jail.

"I joined them down on the floor and I was singled out as a black female senator, standing in the rotunda with constituents in the Capitol, in the body that I serve in, and I was singled out and arrested today for standing with so many Georgians who are demanding every vote be counted," she said.

When asked whether police knew she was a state senator when she was arrested, Williams quipped, "I wear my name tag every day in the Capitol."

The protest at the state Capitol came as federal judges throughout Georgia ruled on several election-related lawsuits, including several filed in relation to the Georgia governor race.

The results of that election has yet to be officially decided, though Republican Brian Kemp has already declared himself the winner. Democrat Stacey Abrams, however, has yet to concede as she vows to make sure every vote cast in the election be counted.

JUSTIN BLACKMAN, 16 - SOLO GUN CONTROL WALK OUT AT HIS N.C. SCHOOL

JUSTIN BLACKMAN, 16 - SOLO GUN CONTROL WALK OUT AT HIS N.C. SCHOOL:

JUSTIN, 16 OF WILSON NORTH CAROLINA, WAS THE ONLY STUDENT AT HIS SCHOOL TO WALK OUT MARCH 14th.

JUSTIN BLACKMAN, 16 HAS A VOICE & HE USED IT VIA CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR NATIONWIDE GUN CONTROL.

SOMETIMES REAL LEADERS MUST BE WILLING TO STAND ALONE.

KUDOS TO JUSTIN FOR BEING COURAGEOUS & FOR CARING ABOUT HUMAN LIFE.

PRAY FOR JUSTIN’S PROTECTION BECAUSE THE NRA IS ANGRY.


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****** This teen was the only student in his school to participate in the national walkout


On Wednesday, students nationwide left class to honor the 17 teenagers who died in the Parkland shooting, and to protest lax gun control laws in the United States.

But on #NationalWalkoutDay, 16-year-old Justin Blackman realized that he was the only student at Wilson Preparatory Academy in Wilson, North Carolina to participate in the protest.

"It's National Walkout Day, I'm the only one from my school out here," he said in a video he tweeted. “I’m just going to be chilling here for the next 15 minutes.”

According to CNN, about 700 students attend Wilson Preparatory Academy. Blackman was the only student to leave class. He spent 17 minutes outside, one for every person who died at Stoneman Douglas High School last month, and then walked back to his Spanish class.

The school declined to comment on the issue, but told CNN Blackman is an "independent thinker."

He didn't think that anyone would care. “There’s going to be like six people watching this hopefully," he said in the video.

Instead, Blackman received an outpouring of support from people around the country.

Lindsay Knauf, who's from Newtown, Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook school shooting occurred in 2012, thanked Blackman for standing up.

"Seeing the action that is finally taking place means the world to all of us here," she tweeted at him.

Filmmaker and A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay retweeted Blackman's video with a Martin Luther King Jr. quote: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Alexis Tracton, a freshman at Stoneman Douglas, thanked Blackman. "I'm inspired by you for being a leader," she tweeted at him, "Every little thing makes a difference."

Since it was posted, Blackman's video was viewed more than 2.6 million times at the time of writing, and has received more than 11,000 comments.

Blackman isn't the only student to walk out alone at school; second grader Leonardo Aguilar joined the high schoolers in San Jose because he was reportedly the only one to leave his classroom.

And school officials in Sayreville, New Jersey threatened Rosa Rodriguez with suspension for leaving class, but she did it anyway.

This may be the start of Blackman's career in leadership. The high schooler runs a YouTube channel for gaming, but he's thinking about starting one dedicated to politics.

"I'm young and I HAVE A VOICE!!!!" he tweeted.

FERGUSON'S YOUNG PROTESTORS LIVE VIDEO AS THE CITY BURNS: "This Is Obama's Katrina And He Ain't Doin' Sh!T" (Graphic Language)

#Ferguson

Ferguson Protestors Live Video Below:

REMARKS BY YOUNG FERGUSON PROTESTORS ON THE VIDEO: (Graphic Language)

"This is Obama's Katrina and He Ain't Doin' Sh!T"

"We goin' be out here until we get some JUSTICE"

"We were Not expecting DARREN WILSON to be Indicted."

"There have been 3 more Victims since MIKE BROWN, one of them was RAPED and supposedly the Officers' Cameras are missing."

"JUSTICE for Us is being able to walk down the Street without holding our Heads down."

JUSTICE for Us is when the Peaceful Protesters don't get more time in Jail than DARREN WILSON."

"JUSTICE for Us is when we feel like the System is Not letting Us down."

"The DEMOCRATS are Not doing anything for Us either. They say they are DEMOCRATS but they are really REPUBLICANS."

"This is Not a Moment, this is a MOVEMENT".

"F*ck the Government System, We are going to Create our OWN Government!"

"This is Obama's Katrina and He Ain't Doin' Sh!T"

"He Ain't Doin' Sh!T"




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