Joint press release.
6/3/2020
The Bates County Sheriff’s Office and the Butler Police Department have been aware of the planned protest on the Butler Square today. We received information on Monday and began the process of working together to prepare for any potential threat to our community. We have been reassured that the protest is expected to be peaceful.
Together we have taken an oath to protect our citizens and to protect our citizens' right to exercise their first amendment right. Our oath included protecting all citizens and each of their rights afforded to all citizens by the Constitution of the United State of America. We are asking that if you do not agree with the content of the protest that you do not arrive with the intention to counter those who chose to hold the peaceful protest.
It is a time now more than ever for our country to come together and be the Americans we truly are. We have never achieved anything with hate, division and violence. This is a time for us to return to the days of welcoming our neighbors, friends and visitors to our community.
With that said, rest assured, together we have implemented procedures to squelch anything that would take the protest from peaceful to violent. We will protect our citizens and their property with the same vigor as we protect the 1st amendment as that too was a part of the oath that we took. We ask that our community take a deep breath and have faith that we will be able to allow all citizens the freedoms that so many in our country have died to protect.
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6/3/2020
The Bates County Sheriff’s Office and the Butler Police Department have been aware of the planned protest on the Butler Square today. We received information on Monday and began the process of working together to prepare for any potential threat to our community. We have been reassured that the protest is expected to be peaceful.
Together we have taken an oath to protect our citizens and to protect our citizens' right to exercise their first amendment right. Our oath included protecting all citizens and each of their rights afforded to all citizens by the Constitution of the United State of America. We are asking that if you do not agree with the content of the protest that you do not arrive with the intention to counter those who chose to hold the peaceful protest.
It is a time now more than ever for our country to come together and be the Americans we truly are. We have never achieved anything with hate, division and violence. This is a time for us to return to the days of welcoming our neighbors, friends and visitors to our community.
With that said, rest assured, together we have implemented procedures to squelch anything that would take the protest from peaceful to violent. We will protect our citizens and their property with the same vigor as we protect the 1st amendment as that too was a part of the oath that we took. We ask that our community take a deep breath and have faith that we will be able to allow all citizens the freedoms that so many in our country have died to protect.
Courtesy of
Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson
Butler Police Chief Jerret Wheatley
