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N.C. weekly publisher handcuffed while objecting to lack of court access - Entrepreneur Generations

Tom Boney Jr. on Tuesday. News &
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The publisher of a North Carolina weekly was handcuffed and forcibly removed from an Alamance County courtroom Tuesday after protesting that a hearing should be open to the press, The Alamance News reports. Tom Boney Jr., a long-time crusader for open government, is the publisher of The Alamance News in Graham, N.C., pop. 14,153.

The event was a plea hearing for a White woman accused of driving her truck at two 12-year-old Black girls, a case that has been one of interest to Black Lives Matter activists and the press, The Associated Press reports.

Boney was delivering a document requesting a hearing on whether it’s appropriate to close the court to the news media, the Raleigh News & Observer reports.


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