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Arrested During a Peaceful Protest or Demonstration?

By Baker Associates

Exercise of the First Amendment right of free speech is alive and well in the state of Tennessee. Recently, residents from Bristol and surrounding areas of East Tennessee came out to protest President Obama?s healthcare initiative outside a Kroger supermarket. From all reports, no arrests were made during the protest. The same cannot be said about a demonstration that occurred on March 14 in front of the Tennessee Valley Authority headquarters, located near Market Square. During the protest, local residents, students and out-of-state activists demonstrated against mountaintop removal coal mining and the recent coal ash disaster affecting the residents of Harriman, Tennessee in Roane County. After marching through downtown, some participants decided to stage a ?die in? by falling to the sidewalk, symbolizing what they believed to be the deaths caused by the coal industry...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).