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PRESS RELEASE:
Contact: Kirk D. Lyons 828-669-5189
Confederate Activist Assaulted
Asheville, NC - SLRC Board of Advisors Chairman H.K. Edgerton was assaulted and punched by a 15 year-old Asheville youth who was confronting him with two others. H.K. was performing his daily vigil in front of Mission-St Joseph Hospital. The Hospital system recently banned Confederate & Georgia flags from their construction sites.
HK was approached at 5:45 PM yesterday by the three
black teenagers, who surrounded him and asked him what his sign said
(Heritage not Hate). When H.K. tried to answer he was punched in the
jaw. Hospital security intervened immediately. Two of the boys
scattered and the boy assaulting H.K. was spread eagled by Hospital
security. The Asheville police were called and the boy, 15 and a
student Asheville High School, was threatened with a felony arrest.
H.K. insisted that the boy, spread eagled, crying
and who had wet his pants, should not be arrested but returned to his
Mother. Reluctantly and after a stern warning to the boy, the
police released him into his Mother's custody. The SLRC believes this sets a very bad precedent
for those members of the black community who seem to think that H.K. is
a risk-free target of opportunity. The SLRC notes that this is the
second time in two years that this has happened. It is the position of
the SLRC that the boy should have been arrested. H.K. refuses to
press charges. The SLRC insists and H.K. has agreed, that the boy
be ordered to participate in the hospital vigil after school with H.K.
or other community service for a time at H.K.'s discretion OR then face
arrest and prosecution. The public vigil at Mission-St Joseph hospital by
H.K. and others will continue. The SLRC is non-profit, tax exempt, South Carolina public law firm that specializes in cases involving Southern Heritage violations.
PLEDGE TODAY!
If anyone has received this who does not wish to be on our distribution list, please let us know. Our address is SLRC, P.O. Box 1235, Black Mountain, NC 28711. Phone: 828-669-5189 Dr. Payne and Atty. Lyons SCV members, I.N. Giffen,758, Black Mountain, NC
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