Lisa Michelle O’Quinn of Greenville, North Carolina was arrested after hitting two Black women with her car during an otherwise nonviolent protest over the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in April. Elizabeth City has been the site of near-daily protests for weeks, and tensions in the city grew even further recently when prosecutors decided against charging the deputies involved in Brown’s death.
Devon M. Sayers and Joe Sutton of CNN reported that O’Quinn is currently in custody and faces two felonious counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill by the use of a motor vehicle; one count of careless and reckless driving, and one count of unsafe movement of a motor vehicle. According to CNN, O’Quinn could also face hate crime charges for her actions, pending an investigation into the “aggravating factors” of her motivation.
“O’Quinn was booked into the Albemarle District Jail with a $40,000 secured bond and will appear in court on Thursday [May 27],” Sayers and Sutton reported, adding that both victims involved in the attack have since been treated for minor injuries and released from a hospital.
