ReOpen NC leader Ashley Smith's husband Adam Smith reportedly remarked 'this is how Nazi Germany started' after his wife was arrested during a protest demanding that North Carolina abandon public health measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A leader from a group demanding that North Carolina eliminate preventative measures and allow businesses to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic has been arrested after refusing police orders on Tuesday.
Ashley Smith is one of the administrators of Facebook group ReOpen NC. A different leader of the groupSmith and others from the group were arrested and charged with resisting arrest and violating Governor Roy Cooper's stay-at-home order banning large gatherings, according to local news outlet WNCN. They were arrested after being told to not conduct their protest on the governor's mansion property and allegedly refusing to oblige.
"We'll all go to church, we'll open our businesses and we'll buy what we want," Smith told the crowd before she was arrested, according to."We will not go down gently. ... If you feel the need to stay home, it is your God-given right to do so. But we want to live!" Protesters demand the lifting of restrictions intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during a protest in Raleigh, North Carolina on April 14, 2020.Video from later on in the event shows a handcuffed Smith being taken away by police as she refers to the officers as"pigs" and claims"I did not resist." Her husband Adam Smith also reportedly called the police"little piggies" and claimed that"this is how Nazi Germany started" after his wife was arrested.
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