CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Executive Director for the NCGOP is speaking out after an official with the state’s Republican Party was threatened with a weapon outside of a Steele Creek early voting location Wednesday afternoon.
Derek Partee is an African-American man who is also the Vice Chairman of the state’s Twelfth Congressional District Republican Party.
Police say Partee was walking outide of the voting location Wednesday afternoon when he was confronted by Jason Wayne yelling racial slurs at him.
Partee says there was also a woman and another man involved in the incident. When he noticed the other man taking pictures from across the parking lot he made the decision to walk over and get a picture of their license plate.
When Partee tried to return to his car he says the men confronted him with a camera. At one point one of the suspects displayed a weapon on his right hip.
Exectutive Director for the NCGOP Dallas Woodhouse released a statement condemning the action.
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