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I’m your Mountaineer I never followed college football before I became a Mountaineer just a few weeks ago.

The Jesuits banned collegiate athletics decades

by Brian Clarey before I attended my own alma mater. And Long Island, where I grew up, has no great collegefootball traditions like in the Midwest, the South, the West… pretty much everyplace else.

My wife has no background in football save for accompanying me to Saints games for all these years. This season, she’s delving a bit deeper into the game, its rules and pacing, the interplay between power and grace.

So after sending our oldest child to Appalachian State University a couple months ago, my wife and I decided to become Mountaineer football fans, a bit of a bandwagon move because the team has been awesome since long before we came along, but legit enough.

It should be noted that our son, who is an actual Mountaineer, has absolutely no interest in his school’s football team. He came back to Greensboro on homecoming weekend to see a punk-rock show.

And so we drove up to Big Al’s cabin

through the rain on Friday night and awoke to a perfect Boone morning: cold, clear and bright.

We suited up in our Mountaineer gear — so much cheaper than its NFL counterpart — and hit the tailgate lot where our Greensboro friends, both alums, hold a strategic parking spot along with a passel of season tickets. At gametime we climbed the concrete bleachers of Kidd Brewer Stadium and watched our team mow through the Georgia State University Panthers like they were standing still.

While QB Zac Thomas threw for nearly 300 yards and sophomore Darrynton Evans rushed for more than 125, we learned the chants and hand-signals of the hometown crowd. We thrilled when junior Desmond Franklin made his thirdquarter pick-6. And we left a little early when it looked like a blowout, though we could hear the cheers from the stadium all across the campus.

Now our Mountaineers are looking at a bowl bid — talk in the tailgate section is of the New Orleans Bowl, whatever that is, after a big turnout for Saturday’s game against Sun Belt rivals Troy University. A Mountaineer win would put them tied for first in the regular season, going into the championship on Dec. 1.

It’s a great time to be a Mountaineer.

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Friendsgiving @ Geeksboro Battle Pub (GSO), 12 p.m.

Geeksboro Battle Pub holds a potluck meal for anyone looking for a place to celebrate Thanksgiving. Bring a dish to share for this community feast, and enjoy the bar open for business during dinner. Learn more about the event on Facebook.

Christmas Lights @ McLaurin Farms (GSO), 6 p.m.

This weekend marks the opening of this seasonal hayride. Cruise along the farm and witness as thousands of lights twinkle to music, or meet Santa Claus as he stops by for his nightly visit. To learn more, visit mclaurinfarms.com.

A Carolina Christmas @ RJ Reynolds Auditorium (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

Miss Eaves @ the Ramkat (W-S), 7 p.m.

Thanks, But No Thanks Giving @ Reboot Arcade Bar (W-S), 4 p.m.

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Miss Eaves performs an energetic set, meshing electric pop with rap. Fortezza and Speak N’ Eye take the stage as well, providing psychedelic rock jams and hiphop anthems. This show showcases the three acts, all from North Carolina. Find out more on Facebook.

Escape the holiday hassles for a bit with some arcade distractions. Take a break with a few rounds of pinball or other video games. Beer combos and $4 shot specials run all night long. Find the event on Facebook.

Friendsgiving Potluck @ North Star LGBTQ Center (W-S), 6 p.m.

This supper offers anyone without plans for Thanksgiving a seat at North Star’s table.

Prepare a dish for the Turkey Day festivities and mingle with other community members. Check out the details for the event on Facebook.

Stereo Doll @ BBJ’s Blue Bourbon Jacks (HP), 10:30 p.m.

This concert from Stereo Doll offers a cover show in a laid-back bar. The dynamic band animates the venue with an energetic sound and a set that ranges from rock to funk to hip-hop. Find the event on Facebook.

The Cirque de la Symphonie astonishes crowds with this annual tradition. Acrobats fly through the air for a thrilling act in a new expanded routine. Performances go on Saturday and Sunday. Learn more on Facebook.

Josh King & Them @ The Blind Tiger (GSO), 9 p.m.

SATURDAY Greenspurro Market @ Crooked Tail Cat Cafe (GSO), 12 p.m.

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Really Really Free Market @ Corner of Grove Street and Glenwood Avenue (GSO), 10 a.m.

Drop off some items you don’t need anymore, or rummage through what others have left in this no-cost bazaar. The Buy Nothing Day event is free to all. The day encourages recycling, repurposing and re-using stuff to cut back on environmental damage and to enjoy gifting. Learn more on Facebook.

Browse the creation of select vendors as they display their creative wares, and meet the cats of Crooked Tail. Wine and “Meowmosas” will be available, and a raffle offers a chance at a painting, merchandise and mystery prizes. Funds from the raffle go towards the cat’s care. Learn more on Facebook.

Come out for a night of melodies from Josh King & Them, featuring Abigail Dowd. Josh King & Them utilizes Americana and guitar pop for a melodic sound, drawing inspiration from Chris Stapleton and Jamey Johnson. Buy tickets and find out more on Facebook.

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Flea Monster III @ Monstercade (W-S), 3 p.m.

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Holiday Soul Sunday Brunch @ The Historic Magnolia House (GSO), 11 a.m.

This Sunday kicks off a weekly brunch in the Historic Magnolia House. Enjoy a comforting meal in this motel with a rich past. Live bands bring a jazz soundtrack to amp up the fun and holiday spirit. Learn more on Facebook.

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This Monstercade marketplace breaks away from the holiday festival mold with an eccentric emporium. Vendors will sell toys, crafts and apparel both handmade and vintage, among various oddities.

Snack while you shop with food from Burger Supreme. Check out the event on Facebook.

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In their theater, the UNCSA actors of The Nutcracker Suite bring the story to life, and now bring the magic to the Mast General Store with this immersive character appearance. Step into the world of this classic holiday tale, and meet the performers.

Snap some pics as they enchant visitors.

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Head over to the Scott Dunn Auditorium for a screening of the Alan Bennett play Allelujah!, filmed during its London’s Bridge Theatre run. The play follows a documentary crew as they explore a hospital on the verge of shutting down and an elderly choir. Purchase tickets and learn more at ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk.

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It took me a while to admit this, and I’m still not 100 percent sold, but I’m ready to acknowledge that video games are not a complete waste of time.

I should know: I’m an Original Gamer, harkening back to an era when playing video games was absolutely and unequivocally a complete waste of time.

The skills required to complete the elevator level on Donkey Kong or navigate Atari’s Adventure in its entirety have absolutely no real-world value, except to answer obscure trivia questions and impress nerdy teenagers.

Back then, they were worth even less.

Even more so, I can remember the hours it took for me to master Tecmo COURTESY These games probably were a IMAGE Bowl and Super Mario Brothers, waste of time — and quarters. hundreds of hours I’ll never get back, with nothing to show for it but hazy memories. I can’t even remember how to get to the warp area.

Like a lot of parents, including my own, I am convinced that my children spend way too much time playing video games, time that would be better spent, say, learning an instrument or reading the great works of literature, or even watching all the episodes of “Seinfeld,” as important in its way.

But then one of my kids’ friends became unbeatable at Dragon Ball Fighter Z, placed in a tournament in Las Vegas and, according to my child, “went pro,” which seems to me to mean about the same thing as a surfer or skater got “sponsored,” back in the day: some free gear and paid entry into tournaments, with a few other perks.

I know that it’s important for a kid to be really good at something. Anything. And if they show aptitude and interest, it must be explored.

I recognized that today’s video games are a far cry — no pun intended — from the ones I grew up on. I’m pretty sure they learned more about the American Revolution from Assassin’s Creed III than any classes they’ve taken. They interact with their friends and make new ones, albeit online, and are experiencing a huge cultural movement of which most of their generation is a part.

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I was never a huge Queen fan. The band’s sheer grandiosity — I mean, that’s what they were all about, right? — and indulgences of both the sonic and lifestyle variety flew in the face of the minimalist, punk, anti-arena rock ethos that supplied the north star of my youth.

It was also hilarious to me that a band called “Queen” ruled the classic-rock airwaves and found common currency with the macho heavy metal set in the homophobia-infused cultural milieu of my Kentucky upbringing in the 1980s.

But within that contradiction lies the essential subversive genius of Queen before they were turned into a caricature by Wayne’s World. As Rami Malek, inhabiting lead singer Freddie Mercury, says in the new biopic Bohemian Rhapsody: Queen is a group of misfits who belong to the misfits, or something to that effect. Or as Gwilym Lee, portraying the band’s homely guitar player Brian May, puts it, Queen is family. And as both tried to explain to their producer, they didn’t have to be any one thing. They could be experimental, operatic, histrionic, rocking and anthemic all at once.

Once you get past the fact that Freddie Mercury exhibited many of the characteristics of self-indulgence and narcissism that became ’70s rock-star tropes, there’s a deeper and more inspiring story in Bohemian Rhapsody. It’s amazing to consider that Mercury, or Farrokh Bulsara, as his parents knew him, was an immigrant who didn’t arrive in England until he was 18 years old. Also that he refused to restrict himself to a single sexuality when the stigma against queer sex put anyone who didn’t toe the heterosexual line at risk of blackmail.

So, when Mercury plays Live Aid, which would become what many consider one of the greatest live rock performances of all time, suspecting that he has AIDS and his time is limited, it feels like a triumph — and one that the whole world can share.

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Account of police officers’ conduct and directives on raise questions

by Jordan Green The Greensboro Police Department has returned four officers to duty after an internal investigation concluded that they did not violate directives in their handling of a man experiencing a mental health crisis. But the officers’ actions, as described by a lawyer who reviewed police body-camera video, suggest something else.

The Greensboro Police Department announced the conclusion of an internal investigation finding that four officers did not violate any policies in their handling of an incident in which a 38-year-old man experiencing a mental health crisis died in custody after asking for help on Sept 8.

The announcement that the officers had been cleared of wrongdoing and returned to regular duty came hours after a Nov. 14 press conference that drew an overflow crowd at the Beloved Community Center in which Marcus Smith’s sister, Kay Suber, said on behalf of the family that the officers’ “actions appear to have caused him to pass away.”

George Smith, the man’s father, and Graham Holt, a lawyer who is representing the family, viewed the police bodycamera footage of the incident and have reported that the officers hogtied Marcus Smith, a detail not previously disclosed by the police department. “By ‘hogtying’ Marcus,” Suber said, “these officers made it impossible for him to continue breathing.”

While the police department maintains that the officers complied with the directives, Holt’s account of the incident in light of the departmental directive on the use of restraints calls into question whether the officers did, in fact, follow directives, with three specific areas in which the officers’ actions, as reported

by Holt, appear to be at variance with the directive.

Holt told Mayor Nancy Vaughan and members of city council in a letter delivered on Nov. 12 that “while multiple officers held him down, one officer cuffed Marcus’ hands behind his back. Another officer then grabbed Marcus’ ankles and pushed his feet forcing Marcus to bend his knees. The officer pushed his feet all the way to the point that Marcus’ feet were touching his handcuffed hands at the small of his back.”

The controversial restraint technique described by Holt is colloquially known as “hogtying.” Under the heading “Additional Restraint,” the GPD directives

describe “alternative” techniques that may be used when “a higher level of restraint than handcuffing” is necessary.

“In addition to the wrists, the feet or ankles of the arrestee may be secured to restrict the independent movement of the feet and legs,” the directives say, adding that the department provides training in the use of device known as the “RIPP HOBBLE.” “If immobility is needed,” the directive continues. “the secured wrists and ankles may be linked together using flexicuffs or the hobble device.”

Holt wrote in his letter that the officers used “a strap of some kind” and bound Smith’s feet behind his back.

“He was still face down,” Holt wrote. “The officers tightened the strap so tight that Marcus’ shoulders and his knees were suspended above the ground.”

The directives give explicit JORDAN GREEN Marcus Smith’s family, joined by Marcus Hyde (far right) and the Rev. Nelson guidance on how a person Johnson, address the press and community on Nov. 14. should be positioned after being hogtied and warn against “It is the responsibility of the arrestcriminal liability with the police actions bending the person’s body too severely. ing officer to ensure that the arrestee is concerning this incident.”

“At no time shall the wrists and ankles under direct observation from the time Scott Williams, the SBI Agent in of the arrestee be linked together using he is restrained in this manner until the charge for the Northern Piedmont the RIPP HOBBLE device, unless the restraints are removed or the custody of region, told City Beat the agency has arrestee can be seated in an upright the arrestee is turned over to another completed interviews, but is still waiting position, or on their side,” the direcagency,” the directives read. on the release of an autopsy and toxicoltives read. “If this is done, the knees of Asked about the apparent variance ogy report. the arrestee will not be bent more than between the officers’ reported actions Assistant District Attorney Veronica 90 degrees (unless extenuating circumand the directive, Ronald Glenn, the Edmisten told City Beat on Tuesday: stances exist) to prevent stress being public information officer for the depart“My understanding is that our office placed on the arrestee’s chest muscles or ment, told Triad City Beat: “Mr. Holt’s provided a letter to the police departdiaphragm which might contribute to a description is Mr. Holt’s description. We ment indicating we had no objection to positional asphyxiation situation.” conducted a thorough investigation, and the officers going back to work. It’s still a Holt reported: “Marcus’ breathing based on the investigation, the officers pending investigation, so we can’t discuss quickly became strained and under a followed all GPD directives and have it further.” Edmisten specifically declined minute later he stopped breathing. The been placed back on duty.” to address whether the district attorney officers were talking to each other over The city said in a press release on Nov. has made any determination on criminal his body while he stopped breathing.

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A few moments after Marcus stopped torney’s office has cleared the officers of Glenn said the police department’s breathing, one of the officers looked wrongdoing, but an assistant district atinternal review of the incident to deterdown and saw that Marcus’ eyes were torney speaking on behalf of the officers mine whether officers followed directives closed and ascertained that Marcus was gave a statement to City Beat that appears correctly was conducted independent unresponsive. Knowing that the hogtie to contradict the city. of the SBI investigation, and did not was the problem, one of the officers The city press release references a influence the department’s timeline for exclaimed, ‘Untie him now!’” letter from the district attorney’s office clearing the officers of wrongdoing.

The directives also require individu“indicating, based on information from Mayor Vaughan took a cautious stance als restrained by hogtying to be closely the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI), on the officers’ involvement with Smith monitored. pending its final report, there was no prior to his death.

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“They will look at trends and complaints,” Vaughan said. “This is a perfect case for them to study when it comes to restraints and what better restraints can be used in dealing with people who are having either mental or drug-related issues. I don’t know what kind of issues he was having because I haven’t seen the final report.”

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important determinants of sudden, unexpected death,” while not ruling out maximum restraint as a contributing factor. “Nonetheless,” the authors write, “respiratory muscle fatigue resulting from exertion and struggle against restraints (exertion vs. positional asphyxia) cannot be excluded nor can potentially fatal pre-existing problems with central cardiac output, oxygen saturation, or oxygen use.”

Some police departments are exploring alternatives to hogtying.

The San Diego Times-Union reported in January 2017 that a product called the Wrap was becoming increasingly popular with San Diego County, Calif. law enforcement agencies. The device is described as a “stiff nylon blanket… wrapped around a person’s legs and strapped in place to keep him or her from kicking.” The story quotes Lt. Scott Wall as saying the Wrap “is safer for the officers and for people who are combative.”

Mayor Vaughan said she hopes Smith’s family will file a complaint, not only because it’s likely to prod city council to look at the video, but also because it will bring the matter to the attention of the new Greensboro Criminal Justice Advisory Commission.

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sheriff’s deputies “restrained him with handcuffs, then hogtied him, face-down, to an ambulance stretcher,” the South Florida Times reported. Witnesses dispute the police account, according to the article, saying Brown was also beaten and placed in a chokehold without justification.

And Dwayne Nelson, 41, died in 1998 in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles Times reported that a jury awarded Nelson’s family $1.3 million after ruling that sheriff’s deputies were negligent and “failed to put Nelson on his side, effectively preventing him from breathing.”

Black Dog Tactical, a Phoenix-based company that sells hobble straps to law enforcement agencies, cautions in a training video about the occurrence of a medical condition known as excited delirium. Some of the behaviors seem to match Smith’s comportment on the night of his death. Holt said the video shows Smith walking in and out of slowmoving traffic, asking for help, voluntarily getting into a police car and then slamming his hand against the window and leaning back and kicking it in an effort to get out.

“He may remove his clothing,” the narrator in the training video says in describing someone experiencing excited delirium. “He may be aggressive towards objects and glass. He may violently resist you, struggle with you when you’re trying to detain him, talk with him, anything. He may have self-inflicted injuries, incoherent screaming or yelling, sudden loss of consciousness, talking incoherently.”

As the Greensboro police officer did, the narrator in the training video advises officers who encounter a person with those symptoms to immediately contact EMS. Under its FAQ section, the company cites an article about excited delirium posted on the National Institutes of Health website.

The article acknowledges that hobbling or hogtying — also known as “the prone maximal restraint position” — is controversial. The authors write, “Supporters of the positional asphyxia hypothesis postulate that an anoxic death results from a combination of increased oxygen demand with a failure to maintain a patient airway and/or inhibition of the chest wall and diaphragmatic movement. This explanation has been further supported by coroners’ reports of ‘positional asphyxia’ as the cause of death in multiple fatal EXD cases.”

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“I’m not going to comment on something Graham described,” she said.

“I don’t know that his descriptions are accurate.”

Vaughan said she encourages Smith’s family to file a complaint under the revamped police community review board, a subcommittee of the newly formed Greensboro Criminal Justice Advisory Commission. Under changes approved by city council in August, the police community review board reports directly to the city manager’s office instead of operating under the auspices of the Human Relations Commission.

Vaughan indicated council will probably wait for the process to play out through the police community review board before going to court to seek permission to review the video, as Smith’s family and other community supporters have called on them to do.

“There’s a very good chance we’ll watch this video,” Vaughan said. “We will probably wait to get the report from the SBI. It will certainly help facilitate things if they file a complaint.”

Marcus Hyde of the Homeless Union of Greensboro said he and other community members view the police community review board as a dodge to allow council members to shirk responsibility for providing oversight over the police.

“At this point we’re going to put pressure on the city to not force this to go through a two-year or however long process through the PCRB because effectively all that is, is — at this point the way it’s structured, all the police review board and GCJAC are is vacuums to suck energy,” Hyde said. “They are very constrained by the city manager’s office.”

Hyde said there will be a community meeting at Shiloh Baptist Church on Dec. 3 at 6:30 p.m. to explain to the public why community leaders believe the police community review board is a sham process to hamstring the quest for transparency and prevent Smith’s family and the community from obtaining justice.

At least a handful of deaths from hogtying have resulted in lawsuits and large monetary settlements, according to various news accounts.

Troy Goode, 30, was hogtied by Southaven, Miss. police after leaving a Widespread Panic concert in 2015, according to a report by WMC 5 Action News. His lawyer said he was transported by ambulance face down in violation of Mississippi EMS rules and regulations.

Oral Brown died in 2001 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. when Broward County

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Charge dismissed against antifascist professor

by Jordan Green An Orange County district court judge dismisses a misdemeanor assault charge against a UNC-Chapel Hill professor that was brought by the editor of the alt-right website Big League Politics.

The scene was chaotic at McCorkle Place on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on the evening of Aug. 20. The mood among students and other antiracist activists was angry after brief skirmishes with the university police, but mostly determined that the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam would come down.

They were also on edge as neo-Confederates and other far-right activists milled around the periphery in the semi-darkness, watching with grim resignation. Some walked up to students holding banners and verbally sparred, and at least one is accused of charging a student protester while another is accused of threatening someone with a knife. Among the crowd at the base of Silent Sam before the statue was pulled down that night was Dwayne Dixon, a 46-year-old UNC teaching assistant professor, and a group of friends.

Dixon might be the most renowned antifascist activist in the state because of his role with the left-wing militia Redneck Revolt in providing armed security for a park held by antiracist activists during the Aug. 12, 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., and then a week later when he carried a rifle in response to a threatened Ku Klux Klan rally in Durham. He had been charged with going armed to the terror of the people and bringing a weapon to a downtown demonstration for his involvement in the Durham incident, but a judge dismissed the charges, finding that they were unconstitutional.

Some of the far-right activists stationed at the periphery of the crowd recognized Dixon at the Silent Sam protest on Aug. 20.

“There’s Dwayne Dixon, that communist leader!” one unidentified man exclaimed angrily. More than one person stalked Dixon with a camera phone, accusing him of “chasing” James Fields Jr. with a rifle, and causing him to kill Heather Heyer when he rammed his car into a crowd of people in Charlottesville.

One of the accusers, who declined to give his name, was captured on video by Triad City Beat accosting Dixon. Another was Patrick Howley, the 28-year-old editor of the alt-right website Big League

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The hideous falsehood — that Dixon caused Fields to kill Heyer because of his armed defense of antiracists — is among the most durable hoaxes to grow out the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Popularized by the far-right outlets InfoWars and Gateway Pundit, along with Howley’s outfit Big League Politics, the hoax has been widely embraced as a deflection of responsibility by Unite the Right participants, from organizer Jason Kessler to James Campbell and Manuel Luxton, two Triad residents who helped form a battlement with shields at the rally.

Sometime on the evening of Aug. 20, 2018, Howley approached Dixon near the base of Silent Sam. “Dwayne, why did you chase James Fields with a rifle right before he hit those people?” Howley asked Dixon.

The 68-second video posted on YouTube

by Big League Politics reporter Peter D’Abrosca shows the two men arguing; at one point the lens is obscured and the shot jumps as if the person holding the phone is getting jostled. The next day, Howley published an article on the Big League Politics site with the title “VIDEO: UNC Antifa Professor Assaults Big League Editor At Statue Tear-Down.”

Accompanied by his friend, a Chapel Hill-based political consultant named Noel Fritsch, Howley later went to a local magistrate’s office and swore out a warrant resulting in a misdemeanor charge against Dixon for simple assault.

In a victim statement, Howley wrote that Dixon “rushed me, grabbed my left hand and armed with my phone in it, and struck me repeatedly.”

Dixon stood trial in Orange County district court on Nov. 15. His lawyer, Scott Holmes, mounted an elaborate defense, attempting to impeach Howley’s credibility as a witness by building a case that Howley’s coverage is driven by an ideological motive and monetizes a pattern of falsehoods based on dubious sourcing. Holmes also argued that the video contradicted Howley’s testimony about the alleged assault, resulting in a “fatal variance.” But Judge Samantha Cabe didn’t have to rule on any of those questions. Holmes was holding an ace card — an apparent typo by the magistrate that the district attorney’s office failed to correct before taking the case to trial.

“Finally, the reason that it’s really defective is that it names Dwayne Dixon as

UNC-Chapel Hill professor Dwayne Dixon addresses the media on the steps of the Orange County courthouse before standing trial.

the victim and not only the perpetrator,” Holmes said. “They have not proven that Mr. Dixon assaulted himself.”

Judge Cabe quickly announced that she was dismissing the charge because of a “fatal flaw” in the charging document.

‘It shows his level of competency as a witness’ Flanked by supporters before the start of the trial, as cold rain spat from the sky, Dixon gave a brief statement on the steps of the courthouse in Hillsborough.

He accused Howley and his colleagues of continuing “to create falsehoods in order to create a narrative to maintain power — a power that they can only finally ever acquire by actually killing people, by killing Heather Heyer, by killing the 11 people who died in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. This is the truth that needs to be told: that these individuals are working in collusion with the very killers who are now incarcerated for murder.”

Although he would benefit from skillful representation, Dixon made it clear that whatever the outcome of the trial, he viewed the legal process as illegitimate from the start.

“I have no truck with this legal system,” he said. “I have no faith in it. And yet if we as a larger society are going to be in agreement about something, it’s that putting people in the ground is not the way to create a healthy, beneficial

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and open life for all of us. So when I go in today the things that are going to happen today are largely immaterial.

I’m not concerned. This was completely based on untruths.”

Holmes cross-examined Howley for more than an hour — roughly seven times the length of the time used by the prosecutor for direct examination and showing the video of the incident.

Throughout the trial, Howley displayed evasion and even defiance. On eight different occasions, Judge Cabe admonished him to answer Holmes’ questions, and three times she told him to not speak unless he was responding to a question.

The judge also expressed impatience with Holmes, sharply ordering him to “move on” at one point.

Holmes reminded Howley that Aug. 20 was not the first time he had approached Dixon with a camera phone and attempted to ask him about James Fields. Howley admitted that when he and Noel Fritsch accosted Dixon in the hallway of a UNC academic building in February 2018, he did not have an appointment to meet Dixon and did not give him notice that he was coming. And although Howley publicly accused Dixon of assaulting Noel Fritsch — identified on the site as a “Big League cameraman” — Howley testified that Fritsch opted to not pursue charges.

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Howley presented himself on the witness stand as a neutral interlocutor who remains open-minded while attempting to pose questions. He said in addition to asking Dixon about James Fields, he wanted to ask Dixon if he stood “behind the violence that Redneck Revolt has perpetrated across this country” — another leading question based on a faulty premise.

Howley, like other activists and media figures on the far right, latched on to a Facebook comment by Dixon — since deleted — in retort to an anti-“antifa” viral social media post by the firearms maker Spike’s Tactical, in which Dixon said he was proud to have carried a Spike’s firearm when he “chased off James Fields” from the block he was patrolling when Fields drove past, shortly before Fields rammed into a crowd of antiracist marchers three blocks to the south. Later, Dixon clarified in a talk at Harvard University that Fields “paused right in front of me, and I waved him off with my rifle.”

During the Nov. 15 trial, Holmes asked Howley if he had seen the video presented by prosecutors in the Fields case that showed the defendant putting his car in reverse for more than a block, and then accelerating into the crowd.

Howley’s responses were evasive, and after Holmes asked a third time, he finally said, “I saw the video. That’s your interpretation of what happened.”

Judge Cabe said she didn’t understand “the purpose of rehashing what happened in Charlottesville.”

“It shows how his level of competency as a witness — to somehow accuse Mr. Dixon of — to have seen the video of what happened and want to go to UNC campus and stick a camera in his face and accuse him of any responsibility shows that this person lacks all credibility whatsoever.”

Holmes called Howley’s attention to an article in which he described Dixon as “the de facto leader” of the Aug. 20 rally that ended with the toppling of Silent Sam. After initially refusing to answer the question of how many sources he had for the statement, Howley finally responded, “Based on my research, I count myself as a source on that. I did my research. There are many sources who would say that Dwayne Dixon is the leader of this network. There are two sources that I can think of right now.”

Holmes also asked Howley about a statement he published that “Dixon mostly carried out his activist plots in anonymity until Charlottesville,”

asking Howley if he himself “had any Howley responded, “I believe it is knowledge of anonymous plots that Mr. possible. You’d have to ask my business Dixon participated in.” After deflecting partner.” by referencing events in Charlottesville O’Neal, a Raleigh-based political and at the Silent Sam protests, Howley consultant who owns Tidewater Stratefinally conceded that one “source said gies, could not be reached for comment Mr. Dixon was acting anonymously prior for this story. Tidewater Strategies has to Charlottesville and him being exposed worked on campaigns for far-right in Charlottesville forced him to change Republican candidates, including Greg his strategy.” His final testimony dropped Brannon, who ran for US Senate against any reference to “plots” prior to the Thom Tillis in the 2014 primary; Corey Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

Stewart, who lost his US Senate race Howley acknowledged on the stand this year in Virginia to Democrat Tim that he was put on suspension from Kaine; Alabama US Senate candidate Breitbart News for four days, prior to Roy Moore; and Paul Nehlen, who founding Big League Politics. unsuccessfully sought to replace House “And that incident working with BreSpeaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin’s 1st itbart News had to do with an incident Congressional District. Tidewater Stratwhere a reporter was accusing someone egies’ Twitter account follows Augustus else of assaulting them,” Holmes said.

Invictus, a marquee participant in Unite “Isn’t that correct?” the Right who was kicked out of the farHowley acknowledged the incident, in right group American Guard for being which he expressed skepticism in a series too racist. of tweets about Howley has pubthe allegation that licly sought to play Trump campaign down his right-wing ‘It shows his level of commanager Corey ideological orientapetency... to have seen the tion.

Lewandowski assaulted his Breitbart “I consider myself video of what happened colleague Michelle to be an indepenand want to go to UNC cam- dent,” he said in Fields during a campaign event in Orange County pus and stick a camera in March 2016. Accourt on Nov. 15. cording to screen“I consider myself his face.’ grabs of deleted to be a populist and – Lawyer Scott Holmes tweets that were a citizen. I’m not shared by CNN a conservative or a reporter Hadas Gold, Howley insinuated liberal.” that Fields’ allegation was manufactured Tidewater Strategies is more straightto sabotage Trump in the mainstream forward about its orientation. press. “This shoulder incident certainly “We are a full-service political conis getting a lot of attention from the sulting firm working exclusively with mainstream press,” he wrote at the time. conservative candidates and organiza“A whole lot of attention….’” tions across the country,” the website announces.

A news outlet owned by a politiSome of the messaging in the camcal consultant paigns that O’Neal has worked on align After initially brushing aside the queswith Big League Politics’ drumbeat of tion as “irrelevant,” Howley reluctantly coverage promoting the idea of antifastestified that Big League Politics is parcists being as violent and out of control. tially owned by Mustard Seed Media, O’Neal acknowledged that he helped “which is owned by my friend, Reilly set up a political action committee O’Neal.” called Principled Leadership Project in Howley testified that Big League Poliresponse to an inquiry from WBTV 3 tics receives revenue through advertisein Charlotte. The PAC ran a controverments, but when asked if the site has sial ad in support of Republican Karen a list of subscribers, he responded, “I Handel during the 2017 special elecreally don’t want to get into that.” tion to fill the vacant 6th Congressional “Is it true or untrue that you have subDistrict seat in Georgia. scribers?” Cabe asked impatiently.

The ad, which ran after a Bernie “True,” Howley said.

Sanders supporter shot Republican Rep. “Isn’t it true that one of the sources of Steve Scalise at a congressional baseball your revenue is selling your subscriber game in Alexandria, Va., urged voters list to political campaigns?” Holmes to “stop” Handel’s opponent, Democrat asked.

Jon Ossoff, while claiming that the “un-

hinged left is endorsing and applauding shooting Republicans.”

“When will it stop?” a narrator asks in the ad. “It won’t if Jon Ossoff wins on Tuesday, because the same unhinged leftists cheering last week’s shooting are all backing Jon Ossoff. And if he wins, they win.”

Fritsch, the cameraman who accompanied Howley onto campus to accost Dixon inside an academic building in February, is also a political consultant, who, like O’Neal, has worked on the Nehlen, Stewart and Moore campaigns.

Howley gave a contradictory explanation of Fritsch’s involvement with Big League Politics during his testimony on Nov. 15.

“Does he work for Big League Politics?” Holmes asked.

“No, he’s my friend,” Howley said.

“He works with me…. Yes, I suppose you could say he’s a photographer for Big League Politics.”

“You just said he wasn’t,” Holmes said.

“Well, I changed my answer,” Howley replied. “He is.”

Howley was listed as a witness in the charging document for the Aug. 20 incident, but was not called to testify.

After Judge Cabe’s dismissal of Dixon’s charge, Howley stood up in the courtroom and walked out, uttering aloud: “Unbelievable. Wow.” As Dixon and his supporters were leaving, Howley returned with his cell phone. Howley turned on his camera near the courthouse’s security checkpoint and started filming Dixon as he stood near the front entrance. Howley’s question was predictable.

“Can I ask you a question now about Charlottesville?” he asked.

“Can we get an officer of the court to intervene here please?” Dixon asked.

Frustrated once again, Howley turned his ire on the court system, and the mainstream media.

“Obviously it was rigged on a technicality, but the facts are clear that Dwayne Dixon did assault me and he is a very violent person,” Howley said. “And I think that people in Chapel Hill are put in harm’s way by the radical, violent riots he and his friends cause on campus and elsewhere in this country. And until the media, sir — until the media starts reporting on this violence, we’re not gonna be able to come together and have rational conversations in this country because we’re just gonna descend into street fighting out there. And is that what the media wants? That’s not what I want.”

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goodbye. Again. And for good.

In the pages of last week’s issue, owner and publisher Roy Carroll announced that this would be the last newspaper from the Rhino, which will pivot to a digital-first strategy.

It was with no small degree of astonishment that we absorbed this news, and a conflicting mix of emotions.

The Rhino began as a small newsletter put together for patrons of John Rudy’s Rhinoceros Club, where John Hammer worked the door. From there it evolved into the staid conservative weekly that bit at the heels of Greensboro City Council and the Guilford County Commission, always bearing the standard of the local GOP. Some might say that the Rhino, in its prime, changed the course of history in this little corner of the world.

And we will add: Not always for the better.

But the Rhino has been there as long as anyone can remember, intersecting with the careers of some of our staff. Publisher Brian Clarey wrote real We need more estate articles for them journalists on the in the early 2000s, and after the Rhino folded streets these days, the first time back in not fewer.

2013, Clarey hired County Editor Scott Yost to write a shortlived column in Yes Weekly he titled “Yost in the Machine.”

Our news department went toe-to-toe with the Rhino almost 15 years ago, when Greensboro was in turmoil over a police scandal that seemed to spill over into all city business. In a historic 90-something-part series by true-crime writer Jerry Bledsoe, the Rhino advanced a parallel narrative that Senior Editor Jordan Green rebutted in a 10,000-word piece back in 2008 Though they’ve been tough competition over the years the Rhino staff have always been our colleagues and friends. We’re heartened to hear that they’ve rehired reporter Paul Clark and will be redoubling their efforts at covering county and city government in online form.

We need more journalists on the streets these days, not fewer.

And it is with great respect, sincerity and humility that we say thank you to the Rhino newspaper, to John Hammer for starting it, to Willie Hammer for building it, to Scott Yost for making it funny and to Roy Carroll for saving it — and to everyone else who contributed to what once referred to itself as “Greensboro’s only newspaper.”

We’ll miss you out there on the streets.

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as clumps of Graham police officers periodically ordered them to “keep moving.” The antifascists, along with a group of official marshals dressed in orange vests, planned to escort the anti-ICE protesters from the courthouse to a meeting hall, and then to make sure they got back to their cars safely. The atmosphere outside the county commissioners meeting was electric with menace.

“Y’all better take y’all’s ass back home,” a man growled from a passing vehicle at the antifascists. Later, a man dressed in a Harley Davidson sweatshirt and a backwards cap approached the group, saying, “How you doing, you piece of shit? Where’s your badasses? I want your badasses.”

When Michael Thompson approached the antifascists, he extended a hand to greet Mitchell Fryer, a member of Redneck Revolt.

“We’re on different sides, but we’re cool with each other,” Thompson told a police officer who was moving in to intervene.

Asked about the rumored statue tear-down, Fryer told Thompson: “We have zero intention.”

“We thought this was gonna be a shitshow,” Thompson said.

Fryer said, “We want to keep this tamped down.”

Around 8:30 a.m., members of Siembra NC, Down Home North Carolina and their supporters stood up and walked out on Sheriff Johnson’s presentation. They marched two blocks north on North Main Street, chanting, “Fists up, ICE down!” joined by the official marshals and antifascists. The anti-ICE protesters converged in the second floor of the Cooperative, a hip co-working space with unfinished wood, for an alternative presentation on immigration enforcement.

“Now is the time we need to be organized more than ever,” Laura Garduño Garcia, an organizer with Siembra NC, told the majority Latinx group. “We are here to stay.

This is our home, and we will protect one another.”

After the meeting, the marshals and antifascist activists escorted people back to their cars in pairs. An elderly African-American woman turned to one of the antifascists just before she got into her car.

“This is just the beginning, isn’t it?” she said.

It was hard to tell whether she saw a promise ahead or an abyss.

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by Jordan Green Alamance County earned a singularly notorious reputation for harsh and racist treatment of immigrants during its previous 287(g) partnership with Immigration Customs Enforcement, which ended in 2012, when the Obama Justice Department sued Sheriff Johnson for racial profiling. The federal trial produced evidence that Latinos were four to 10 times more likely to be citied in Alamance County traffic stops than non-Latinos, and that both sheriff’s deputies and federal agents in the Alamance County Jail used slurs like “wetback,” “beaner,” “taco” and “Mexicant.” On one occasion, a supervising detention officer sent subordinates a video game in which players shoot at people crossing a river who are labeled “Mexican nationalists,” “drug smugglers” and, in the case of women, “breeders.” A federal judge ultimately dismissed the case against Johnson, while calling the ethnic slurs “reprehensible.”

Far from shunning Johnson over his previous run-in with the federal government, the Department of Homeland Security under Trump has actively courted Johnson to sign a new 287(g) agreement. On Monday night, Sheriff Johnson had a spot on the agenda at the county commissioners meeting to talk about “current crime trends & increased calls for service.” Siembra NC and Down Home North Carolina mobilized about 40 members and supporters to tell commissioners they don’t want to see the jail turned into a de facto ICE holding facility.

Based on seemingly nothing, a rumor started circulating over the weekend that leftists would use the “No ICE Jail in Alamance” action as an opportunity to tear down the Confederate monument in front of the Historic Courthouse where the commissioners were meeting. Barry Brown, a member of the neo-Confederate group Taking Back Alamance County who faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for punching an antiracist protester in Chapel Hill in late August, spread the rumor on his Facebook page on Nov. 16, adding, “My source is very reliable!”

Early Sunday morning, Michael Thompson, a local bail bondsman who is active with the Constitutional Patriots of North Carolina militia posted on his Facebook page: “Need as many as you can send to Graham NC on Monday night. Protesters expected to attempt a statue tear-down in downtown Graham and also expected to storm the Alamance detention center to protest against ICE.” Around noon on Monday, Thompson partially walked his statement back, writing, “We have heard no real threat of anything of anyone with this agenda [sic].” He asked monument supporters to not display flags and to “stay far into the shadows as possible.”

When I arrived at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, I found a half dozen antifascist activists, circling Court Square on foot,

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t’s the kind of music that makes you want to dance, and has for 200 years.

The sweet whine of the fiddle merged with the swells of the accordion as Samantha Harvey jumped up from behind the keyboard and began to tap her heels on the wooden stage. And while none of the audience members followed suit, they began to stomp their feet, causing the floor of the music hall to shake.

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by Fiddle and Bow, a Triad folk music organization, and drew folk music enthusiasts to Muddy Creek Music Hall in Bethania near Winston-Salem on a warm Sunday afternoon. Members of the crowd sipped their ales and stouts while others clapped their hands as a trio of musicians performed on stage.

“You don’t have to be quiet for these next few songs,” encouraged Oisín Mac Diarmada, a renowned fiddler from Ireland who’s won championships for his prowess. He played the instrument with finesse, moving his bow swiftly across the strings as he tapped his feet and swayed back and forth. Nearby, Harvey stamped along to the music, her heels leaving marks on the stage.

Completing the trio, in the center of the stage sat Seamus Begley, another seasoned musician from the Irish folkmusic circuit, who bounced his knees up and down as he plugged away at the accordion strapped to his chest.

The group played a variety of folk songs, switching between upbeat barn dances and melancholic ballads.

As Begley, the only one of the group who sang, crooned in Irish, his voice filled the room, transporting listeners and warming the already cozy atmosphere.

One woman, who wore a thin red sweater and sat in the front row, wiped away tears as she listened. The man sitting next to her mouthed the words and sang along.

“There’s a lot of history in this music,” explained Sonny Thomas, the co-founder of the Fiddle and Bow. “The melodies in folk music are very beautiful. A lot of classical composers felt the same way and drew inspiration from traditional music too.”

Thomas and co-founder Bill Stevens modeled Fiddle and Bow after a similar

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nonprofit in the Triangle and formed the organization in the Despite its relevance however, Thomas says they’ve had a eighties as a way to bring folk musicians to the area. hard time keeping people interested in folk music.

“The market is not huge for folk music,” Thomas said. “In Defined as music that spans generations by oral tradition, Thomas says folk music plays a key our almost 38-year history, we’ve role in helping us understand cultures struggled to get people out. The audiof a different time. ence is older. Many of us became fans Learn more about Fiddle and Bow “Old songs or ballads are reflecin the sixties during the folk revival. and find more performances at Somehow the music isn’t attractive tions of the time they were written,” fiddleandbow.org.

Thomas said. “Through the songs, to young people.”

But, he says, he hopes that the muyou can learn what people were intersicianship and the storytelling bring ested in 200 years ago.”

While the songs may be old, many in those who have a love for simple, of them seemed to reflect values and stories that are still good music. relevant today. Nostalgic tales of love to those of loss and “I think people think folk music died in the 1970s,” he said.

“But it didn’t die, it just changed. Come give us a try.” forgotten childhood memories captured the audience while And even if you can’t dance, you can at least stomp and clap dances with upbeat melodies produced yips and hoots from the musicians as they played. along.

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inda Brown never stands directly behind podiums.

With a stature near 5 feet tall, she says, she feels as if she would vanish. She stands to the side, ensuring neither herself nor the stories she has gathered disappear.

The Department of History at UNCG invited Linda Brown to speak at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum on a recent Saturday. With her, she brought personal accounts of Greensboro’s Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital, also known as the Old Polio Hospital, in the years when it was used to detain civil rights protesters.

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the lecture hall, Chelsea Stewart and others raised four tall she recalled. displays of photos, quotes and statistics about both the polio The building was not meant as a detention center. Anne epidemic in Guilford and the detention of protestors.

Parsons, a UNCG professor of history working with graduate “It’s continuing history and marking it,” Stewart explained. students on a project to bring light to the now-abandoned Linda Brown’s speech closed the series, for the department hospital’s past, laid out the timeline. When the polio epidemic to finalize their exhibit. of 1948 struck Guilford County, residents rallied funds to conAs Brown stepped onto the struct a racially-integrated center stage for her lecture, she carried in a matter of months, which with her a binder full of remarks served polio-stricken patients for Find out more about the International and a copy of her book Belles of more than a decade.

Civil rights Center & Museum at Liberty, both products of her own “As I started doing research, I sitinmovement.org. lived experiences and those of was literally stunned by how many others. people had polio or had family Through her work, she focuses members who had polio,” Parsons on the involvement of women dursaid. ing the Civil Rights movement, and believes the public should The research conducted by Parsons and students about as well. the Old Polio Hospital led to a series of events that told the Bennett College, she pointed out, had many students history on the eve of the building’s 70th anniversary. Outside

Nov. 21-28, 2018 Up Front News Opinion Culture “We would sing, we would pray, we would rely on memory because we had exams coming up.” she said of her time in the hospital. “It kept us from having too much fear.”

Even with Brown’s lecture and Sharp’s account, this barely begins to sum up the vast amount of personal stories that have gone mostly unheard.

UNCG’s history department aims to change this. Throughout the course of their research and events, Parsons and her team of students worked to gather personal anecdotes and other records of the Old Polio Hospital, along with opinions on how to best convey the story. The team will then attempt to instate a highway historical marker near the site. The sign would stand roadside, and publicize the significance of the Old Polio Hospital.

Anne Parsons emphasizes that this falls perfectly within the scope of public history.

“Our mission is unearthing history and building community,” she said.

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involved in the 1960 sit-ins, including herself. She clarified that Woolworth was by no means the end. In 1963, a group of mostly young students, some even high-schoolers, demonstrated for civil rights causes and desegregation of downtown Greensboro.

“It didn’t stop until the city was open in 1964,” she nodded.

The protesters organized their strategy wisely.

She waved her hands as she evoked images of the piles of handmade signs stocked on campuses, and people who signed up for shifts when they had no classes.

“We had a rotating process,” she said. “You did not leave until someone was behind you to take your seat.”

One of the goals was to overwhelm local jails, which succeeded. Then the backup facility filled. Eyes turned to a building that went vacant in the previous decade— the Old Polio Hospital.

Sandra Sharp recounted her mother’s experience teaching children, some of which became quarantined due to polio. Sharp found herself in the same hospital, now an overcrowded detainment center for students who had protested.

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It’s become a holiday tradition for many Triad families to attend a performance of the joyful, dream-inspired story of The Nutcracker. Swirling with heroic toy soldiers, sword-fighting mice, and the glittering Dance of the Sugar PlumN Fairy, the classic ballet is beautifully EDE theEchoreography presented through of award-winning A N R A D B ArtisticA RDirector Gary Taylor, award-winning set N I L B Howard designer HAL Jones, lighting by Craig Stelzenmueller, and original costumes designed by Executive Director-Founder Rita Taylor.

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CHRISTMAS SONGS AND STORIES WITH JOHN BERRY

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Show | 7:30pm / Doors | 6pm

Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, John Berry, rose to stardom on the country charts of the ’90s with such mega hits as Your Love Amazes Me, Standing on the Edge of Goodbye, and She’s Taken a Shine. His 22nd annual Christmas tour will brighten the holidays for thousands, as will his stunningly beautiful rendition of O’ Holy Night. Perfect for the entire family!

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RYTHM BILLY Show Tickets & Gift Certificates Available.

QUEEN’S OF THE “CRASH” DANCE CARTOONISTS CRADDOCK Acts and dates are subject to change. For tickets and updates, go to HighPointTheatre.com or call 336.887.3001