Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon Arrested For Trying To Observe Signing Of Voting Restriction Law
Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon was pulled out of the state’s Capitol building and arrested on Thursday for trying to observe the signing of the state’s new suite of voting restrictions hastily passed through the Senate this week. A video shows several police officers pushing Cannon while she is retrained. Cannon was knocking on Gov. Brian Kemp‘s door while he signed the voting restrictions into law. The governor decided to sign the bill behind closed doors in a highly irregular process. In a statement Thursday night, Georgia State Patrol wrote that at 6:33 p.m. Rep. Cannon “was beating on the...