AR Times: “Colburn Clark, one of three University of Central Arkansas students arrested at a nonviolent protest during a Conway School Board meeting in November, was sentenced today to three days in jail and fined $650.
It’s a notably steep penalty for criminal trespassing and failure to disperse charges, both Class C misdemeanors. The prosecution requested only that Clark be fined. But District Judge Chris Carnahan sentenced him to three days in jail for each charge, which may be served concurrently for a total of three days behind bars.
Clark was arrested alongside Alex Barnett and Keylen Botley last November while protesting the Conway School Board’s anti-transgender policies alongside about 40 others. The group was asked to leave the building, but bodycam footage captured Clark, Barnett and Botley remaining seated on the ground, arms linked and shouting “Trans lives matter!” and “The school board is fascist!” until they were taken into custody.”