Reverend William Barber, President of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, along with Rev. Nancy Petty, senior pastor at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church have been arrested by the Raleigh police after they stepped onto the property of the Wake school board administration building, in defiance of a school district letter that barred the pair from school grounds after their earlier arrest during a protest at a school board meeting. Barber and Petty were handcuffed and taken to the Wake County jail. Full article
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