Black Georgia Rep Arrested for Knocking on a Door

SHE WAS DEFENDING BLACK VOTERS AGAINST JIM CROW VOTER SUPPRESSION

March 30, 2021 fwstaff 

Park Cannon, African American legislator arrested in Georgia state capitol building. | Photo: Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal Constitution via AP

By Fighting Words Staff

Klan thugs dressed in Georgia State Trooper uniforms handcuff and drag Black Georgia State Representative Park Cannon backwards to a cop car, arresting her for defending her constituents’ voting rights by knocking on the governor’s door at the Georgia Capitol Building. She faces serious felony charges.

The governor was signing a bill straight out of the Jim Crow era denying voting rights to millions of Black Georgians.

This comes less than three months after a neo-Klan mob smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol, injuring many and even killing a cop, with the express purpose of overturning the votes by millions of people of color. They were all allowed to leave town unmolested and only a fraction of those have been arrested, mostly on minor charges.