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Ohio Judge Jails Lawyer for Refusing to Remove BLM Button

HeadlineJul 25, 2016

A judge had an Ohio attorney handcuffed and taken into custody after she refused to take off a Black Lives Matter button. Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Robert Milich found attorney Andrea Burton in contempt of court and sentenced her to five days in jail. Burton said her First Amendment rights had been violated.

Andrea Burton: “It’s an act of civil disobedience, I understand that. I’m not anti-police. I work with law enforcement every day, and I hold them in the highest regard. And just to say for the record, I do believe all lives matter, but at this point they don’t all matter equally, and that’s a problem in the justice system.”

Burton was released Friday pending appeal.

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