Texas civil rights attorney Lee Merritt was arrested at a protest Sunday in McKinney. He was booked into the Collin County jail.
Merritt was arrested by the McKinney Police Department about 4 p.m. on charges of obstructing highway/passageway and unlawful carrying of a weapon, according to McKinney police.Officers responded to U.S. Highway 380 after receiving multiple 911 calls that a group of about 20 people, including children, were blocking the roadway, police said.
According to a news release from the police department, officers followed the people for “several minutes, blocking traffic for them” while asking them not to block the roadway and “gave 10 minutes of warnings.”The majority of the group left the roadway, but Merritt and two other people, Shelby Tauber, 26, and Lachay Batts, 30, were arrested in connection with the protest, police said.
“As soon as they came out of the cars, they immediately arrested us,” Tauber said. “They didn’t try to speak to us or anything.” Contrary to the police department’s news release, Tauber said she did not hear anyone tell officers they wanted to be arrested.. Lana Ferguson joined The Dallas Morning News after reporting in South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette newspapers. She graduated from the University of Mississippi where she studied journalism and Southern studies. She's a Virginia native but her work has taken her all over the U.S., southern Africa, and Sri Lanka.
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