Rodney Gordon, the president of the Morgan County chapter of the NAACP said, 'The protest on the bridge was not a planned protest; my car stopped on the bridge.'
Rodney Gordon, the president of the Morgan County chapter of NAACP, pictured with hands stretched out as he turned himself in on Oct. 24, 2023. The Decatur Police Department had put a warrant out for his arrest on a charge of disorderly conduct for stopping traffic on a bridge in protest of the police killing of Stephen Perkins on Sept. 29. He said his car stopped on the bridge. With him were others who had warrants out for their arrest for the same crime and their supporters.
Gordon and four others were released on bail later Tuesday afternoon. All five were charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor.“This intentional obstruction of traffic not only backed up traffic for several miles, it also created a hazardous situation for motorist and emergency vehicles attempting to cross the bridge in order to come into and through Decatur,” the police said in a news release posted to Facebook on Monday.
But security camera footage from the neighborhood appears to show police hiding in the dark while accompanying a tow truck driver attempting to repossess Perkins’ vehicle in the middle of the night. “He talked to me and heard me out and we actually confirmed with him who we were and he was like, it was a mistake and that he was going to lift the warrant and that he had nothing to worry about,” Fuqua told
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