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Alamance Agencies Missed Deadline To Release Videos Of Pepper-Spray Use

The Confederate monument in Graham. PAUL GARBER/WFDD FILE

Two law enforcement agencies in Alamance County did not comply with a court-ordered deadline for releasing videos taken during a 2020 confrontation with protesters.

Small children were among the people in the crowd who were pepper-sprayed as they gathered near a Confederate monument in Graham for a get-out-the-vote rally in October. Police said some participants were arrested because they were blocking a roadway.

A judge ruled earlier this month that failure to make the videos available would undermine public trust.

The Alamance County Sheriff's Office and the Graham Police Department were under court order to release the videos to a coalition of news organizations on Friday.

The News & Observer, one of those organizations, reports that the agencies failed to do so.

A sheriff's office spokesman said the county was considering whether to appeal the judge's decision.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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