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Latest NAACP Protest Nets 84 Arrests, Nearly 400 In Six Demonstrations

A woman is arrested at the state capitol as a part of a Moral Mondays protest.
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84 people were arrested at the General Assembly in another of the "Moral Monday" protests led by the state NAACP.

Church leaders led this week's demonstration and were among those taken into custody Monday night.  So far, more than 380 arrests have been made.  The civil rights organization and a number of left-leaning groups are speaking out against policies pushed by the Republican-controlled legislature.

"This governor and this legislature are determined to take us down a path that will hurt good North Carolina citizens who are suffering through no fault of their own," U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) told the crowd.

"It is mean-spirited and it is wrong. Is this who we are?"

Gov. Pat McCrory joined state GOP leaders to say the protesters are outside agitators who don't speak for a majority of North Carolinians.

Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.
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