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Speakers at a Graham City Council meeting Tuesday demanded the firing of a city police officer after video surfaced showing him pinning a young man against a car during an arrest

Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a state House bill last week that would have imposed harsher penalties for protesters facing charges of rioting. 

The Winston-Salem Police Department says it suspended a police officer without pay for the way he treated a Black teen during an encounter captured on video last year.

A protest is scheduled for Saturday to demand the public release of police bodycam tapes that show confrontations from an October demonstration in Graham, but some of the footage