Updated 07/20/2010 09:20 PM

More than a dozen protestors arrested at Wake school board meeting

By: News 14 Carolina Web Staff

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RALEIGH -- NAACP N.C. Chapter President Rev. William Barber, Rev. Nancy Petty, pastor of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, and NAACP member Gregory Moss were arrested outside Tuesday's Wake County School Board meeting following a march earlier in the day to protest what they believe will be the resegregation of Wake County Schools.

Just before 5 p.m. an additional 16 protestors were arrested and escorted out of the meeting.

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Protestors inside the Wake County School Board meeting on Tuesday were arrested and escorted out by Raleigh police.
RONALD NAUSE/NEWS 14 CAROLINA Protestors inside the Wake County School Board meeting on Tuesday were arrested and escorted out by Raleigh police.

Barber and Petty were charged with second degree trespassing. Moss was charged with resisting, delaying or obstructing a law enforcement officer. All three were transported to the Wake County Jail.

Barber and Petty were also two of the four people arrested at a meeting last month who were protesting the board's decision to eliminate the student diversity policy. They were told they were banned from future school board meetings unless they submitted a written assurance in advance saying that they would not disrupt the meeting.

Barber and Petty did not comply with that policy. They say the school board does not have the authority to ban them from public property.

Authorities released Barber a short time after his arrest. He said his supporters were not originally going to protest outside school headquarters.

"We had planned today to do a rally at the capitol," said Barber. "The people said that we needed to go."

Police said 19 people were arrested in total.

List of 16 protestors charged with second degree trespassing and disorderly conduct

• Laurel Anne Ashton, Carrboro, N.C.
• Samuel Scott Bass, Raleigh, N.C.
• Keith Ausustus Rivers, Elizabeth City, N.C.
• Michelle Laws, Durham, N.C.
• Robert Thompson Stephens, Winston-Salem, N.C.
• Curtis Gatewood, Oxford, N.C.
• Marie Alisa Garlock, Durham, N.C.
• Camellia Lee, Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Anthony Jerome Davis, Whitsett, N.C.
• Madeline Clair Miller, Chapel Hill, N.C.
• David Zachary Eisenstadt, Raleigh, N.C.
• Jimmie Ray Hawkins, Durham, N.C.
• Chinedu Collins Ifejika, Durham, N.C.
• Erin Dalebyrd, Raleigh, N.C.
• Bobby Gray Jones, Goldsboro, N.C.
• Timothy Curtis Hodges, Clayton, N.C.