The civil rights leader who started the 'Moral Monday' protest movement in North Carolina has been found guilty of trespassing during a 2017 protest at the General Assembly.News outlets report the Rev. William Barber was convicted in a Wake County courtroom on Thursday. Barber was charged for not leaving the General Assembly when told to do so. He demanded a jury trial on the misdemeanor charge.
Barber had testified earlier Thursday that the Constitution gives him the right to protest in the building. He said he organized a sit-in at the legislative building because Republican leaders refused to meet with him.
Barber is the former state NAACP president who started the "Moral Monday" movement and now is a leader of the revived national Poor People's Campaign.
