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Residents ask Chapel Hill to review Greensboro police actions at Silent Sam protest

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Residents ask Chapel Hill to review Greensboro police actions at Silent Sam protest

• By Tammy Grubb and Carli Brosseau The (Raleigh) News & Observer
• Sep 6, 2018
• Sep 6, 2018
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Protesters cover their faces after pepper spray is deployed on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on Aug. 30 during a rally to commemorate the Silent Sam statue.

• Chuck Liddy/News & Observer

Members of ACTBAC and protesters face off at McCorkle Place on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, during a rally to commemorate the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam by the Alamance County-based group, in Chapel Hill.

• Chuck Liddy/News & Observer

Members of ACTBAC are escorted away from the Silent Sam memorial site to their vehicles in the Morehead Planetarium parking lot on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, during a rally to commemorate the Confederate statue Chapel Hill, N.C.

• Chuck Liddy/News & Observer

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By Tammy Grubb and Carli Brosseau The (Raleigh) News & Observer

CHAPEL HILL — Residents called on the town and its police chief to reconsider their partnership with Greensboro police after protesters and news media were pepper sprayed last week on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.

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Protesters cover their faces after pepper spray is deployed on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on Aug. 30 during a rally to commemorate the Silent Sam statue.

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Members of ACTBAC and protesters face off at McCorkle Place on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, during a rally to commemorate the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam by the Alamance County-based group, in Chapel Hill.

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Members of ACTBAC are escorted away from the Silent Sam memorial site to their vehicles in the Morehead Planetarium parking lot on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, during a rally to commemorate the Confederate statue Chapel Hill, N.C.

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