A North Carolina graduate student who led a protest against her university’s plan to bring a Confederate statue back to campus has been arrested and charged with inciting a riot and assaulting a police officer.
Maya Little, a 26-year-old graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, turned herself in at the Orange County Courthouse on Tuesday, UNC spokesperson Randy Young told NPR.
Little led a rally on Monday night after the university announced its recommendation that the statue of Confederate soldier “Silent Sam” be relocated to a site about a mile south of where it had stood on school grounds — before protesters tore it down in August.
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