LET'S MAKE THIS PERFECTLY CLEAR

Neither was I nor my section group was part of this . We did not participate in the Hanes Mall part of the Protest either. When we were all together and the young men came over the began chanting 'Eff Da Police' and more. I immediately look at the confused group and began to the top of my voice chanting 'WE COME IN PEACE-WE COME IN PEACE!' and the entire group follow suit. One of the young men walked over to me and ask 'Do you want us to Rock this? I told him 'Oh Nooooo you get in step with the group' and he went back beside his other masked friend. They stood there talking amongst each other as to be planning something but we kept on with our peacefully protest. My group section stay on the corner while most left to go to the mall . Anyone that knows me know that I do not walk far due to physical limitations. With all things such as this you are bound to get some rabble rousers. As far as the entire protest it went very well. And the rambunctiousness of the young men were not life threathening. City Manager Lee Garrity; “I did talk to Ms. Porter right at the beginning of the event, but there was no formal coordination,” Garrity said, adding that he saw no violations taking place while he was at the scene. Garrity said he had left before the protesters blocked Hanes Mall Boulevard, although he saw the pictures later in the Journal. “While I was there they stayed out of the road,” Garrity said. “They stayed on the sidewalk.”