Nine arrested at Rogersville BLM protest for disorderly conduct appear in court
Eight of the nine people arrested during Saturday’s Black Lives Matter protest in Rogersville were identified by police as members of a non-local white supremacist group who allegedly attempted to agitate other peaceful protesters by yelling profanity and racial slurs.
Those eight defendants are Craig Briggs Spaulding, 33, of Knoxville; Caleb Dane Rose, 21, of Knoxville; Adam Lawrence Rice, 24, of Maryville; Cory Smith, 25, of Knoxville; Stephen Parker Smith, 27, of Louisville, Tenn.; Garon Joseph Archer, 25, of Johnson City; Sean Camron Kauffmann, 26, of Vail, Ariz.; and Joshua Blakeney, 20, of Morristown.
I'm from Rogersville and the local town folk that were there to keep the New Panthers from tearing up anything also kicked the **** out those Nazi jerks.
It was sad that there were the old school rednecks there that were being racist, but situations like this bring out the worst people from either side of any situation.
The big deal with Rogersville is that we dont have a race issue. That's what most of the logical thinking population was arguing and letting the protesters know they weren't needed and only drumming up problems that didn't exist. Like i said before there are racist people in Rogersville, but they dont discriminate or make their private feelings known. They keep to themselves and dont bother anyone.