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Civil rights leader uses his theater ouster as lesson disability access rights

A national theater chain is apologizing North Carolina civil rights leader Rev. Dr. William Barber II after an employee called to police to have him removed. Barber II was escorted out of a movie theater in Greenville, NC, on Tuesday afternoon after he was not allowed to use his own chair to watch a movie.
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A national theater chain is apologizing North Carolina civil rights leader Rev. Dr. William Barber II after an employee called to police to have him removed. Barber II was escorted out of a movie theater in Greenville, NC, on Tuesday afternoon after he was not allowed to use his own chair to watch a movie.

Reporter : Carly Haynes
Photographer : Curt Tremper
Posted 2023-12-27T17:45:24-0500 - Updated 2023-12-27T17:45:24-0500