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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ben Finley

Civil rights leader removed from movie theater for using his own chair

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons, prompting an apology from the nation's largest movie theater chain.

The incident occurred Tuesday in Greenville during a showing of “The Color Purple.” The Rev. William Barber II said he needs the chair because he suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, a disabling bone disease.

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