We’ll be on the ground in #Asheville tonight (demo called for 6pm) keeping y’all posted!

Spotted in Asheville a few hours ago:
Per gov Roy Coopers press conference an hour ago:

NC deploying 450 Nat’l Guard across state, looks like concentrated in Fayetteville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh.
my nipple still stings from a pepper bullet barrage
took back over patton and college
took over the intersection at patton and broadway- this is epicenter of downtown avl. where the racist vance monument stands, and what used to be the auction block for enslaved people
lots of people got shot point blank by tear gas canisters- notably i’m the face, chest and head.
pepper spray pepper bullets and teargas on 240 while the crowd was in kneeling for george floyd
just took the highway!!!
crowds trying to decide about moving back to get the kids who got tear gassed out
150 people taking the streets now
200 of us out now, bike cops trying to head it off
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