A Rally for Scott Knibbs was held at Speaker's Corner beside the Macon County Courthouse at noon today. Mark Melrose, the attorney for the Knibbs family, addressed a crowd of family, friends, and supporters of the Knibbs family. He spoke of concerns in the handling of the of the incident by Deputy Momphard and Sheriff Robert Holland and repeated a request he made earlier to the District Attorney for her, due to her close relationship with the Sheriff, to recuse herself from this case. A number of friends and Scott's father also spoke, reminding those gathered of Scott's character and contributions to his family, the community, and his church. During the rally, a couple of long sustained horn blasts were heard by people attempting to disrupt the rally and one woman yelled from her car at the crowd, “ya’ll need to just go home.”
A video of the entire rally is posted below in order that a complete and accurate record of the event is relayed to the public.
Here are some photos that were taken at the rally this afternoon:
[click on any of them to enlarge]
Media outlets represented at the rally include WLOS-TV (reporter and camera operator), Fox Carolina (reporter and camera operator), Macon Media (reporter), Macon County News and Shopping Guide (photographer) and The Franklin Press (reporter).
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Published at 3:15 pm on May 8, 2018
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