“We will do all that the NAACP Youngstown can do to ensure that Attorney Burton’s Constitutional rights are not being violated”, he said.
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A municipal court judge in OH has cited an attorney for contempt of court and given her five days in jail after she refused to remove a Black Lives Matter button she was wearing. If she loses her appeal, she will have to serve the five days in jail.
“No one wearing an American flag button would be removed”.
“But Milich said that the Supreme Court has held in the past that political attire can be prohibited by courtroom judges if they so choose, and added that a garment signaling political inclination is different from “. a flag, a pin from your church or the Eagles”.
Attorney and community activist Kim Akins said she is anxious about what happened.
A “Black Lives Matter” banner hangs over the main entrance of City Hall in Somerville, Mass. Somerville’s mayor denied a request from the police union that the banner, which has hung for almost a year, be removed and replaced with one that says “All Lives Matter”.
Burton is removed from the court after repeatedly declining Milich’s order to take off the pin..
WKBN reports that Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Robert Milich said Burton was in contempt of court for refusing to remove the button in his courtroom after he asked her to do so at an earlier date.
“To remain neutral becomes an accomplice to oppression.” she told WFMJ.
Afterwards, a black pastor said, “To get 1,800 people out to that park, to get police officers and people who have issues with them, to break bread and dance together, people that have been burning on the inside for years, we erased some of that doubt and fear”.
On Friday, Oakland Police Department spokeswoman Johnna Watson said they’ve received a lot of support ever since the statement was made by the Oakland protester.
Burton’s sentence will be taken to an Appeals Court.
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The Youngstown branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said its legal counsel is monitoring the case closely as it may violate Burton’s civil rights.
