A rural Virginia town, home to two of three active police officers charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, is still reckoning with fallout over race, history and politics
PHOTO: This Jan. 6, 2021 photo from a complaint and arrest warrant shows Rocky Mount Police Department officer Jacob Fracker and Sgt. Thomas Robertson at the Capitol.
PHOTO: Carol Yopp of Rocky Mount, Va., designed a local mural portraying the town's rich history of agriculture, bluegrass music and moonshine. Robertson wrote on Instagram that the men “attacked the government” to “stand up for their rights,” according toCraighead led calls to get the officers fired, which in turn made her a target of their supporters.
Lee, who at 29 is the youngest person ever elected to Rocky Mount government, has been urging his neighbors for the past year to turn the page. “People like to fantasize, I call it, saying you know it’s a good old Southern town and all the families get along, and everybody’s happy, etc. And I call that ‘the fantasy,’” said Franklin County school board member and Rocky Mount native Penny Blue.
“Trump did not radicalize these people,” she added of the rioters, “he took advantage of what was already here in Franklin County and America.” “Church and God is a big thing for us. History – we’re steeped in history and we feel as though people who don’t understand our way of life or they don’t resonate or connect with us,” Williams said of his landslide victory against Craighead in November.
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