A lawsuit stemming from an arrest at a Raleigh COVID shutdown protest six years ago is attracting attention now from a multistate group representing police.
The Southern States Police Benevolent Association requested permission Friday to file a friend-of-the-court brief with the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the case Ussery v. Cooper.
SSPBA neither supports nor opposes plaintiff Monica Ussery’s case. Ussery sued law enforcement officers and others involved in her arrest at a ReOpenNC protest near the governor’s mansion in 2020…