Police Arrest Young Black Politician For Distributing Voting Rights Leaflets

by Alice Ollstein, Posted on September 2, 2014 at 9:17 am, Updated: September 4, 2014 at 1:47 pm

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA—The stars of North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement took the stage on Labor Day at Charlotte’s Marshall Park to condemn the state’s record on voter suppression and racial profiling, and urge the community to organize and turn out at the polls this November. Just a few hundred feet away, police cuffed and arrested local LGBT activist and former State Senate candidate Ty Turner as he was putting voting rights information on parked cars.