A judge in Alamance County dismissed charges, including disorderly conduct, against one protester and declined to penalize another in a case over several protests in Graham last fall. On Wednesday, Judge Lunsford Long cleared Maurice Wells, Jr., of all charges, including damaging a vehicle, resisting a public officer and disorderly conduct, stemming from a protest last September. Maurice Wells, Jr., waved the Afro-American flag for the Forward Motion’s daily Occupy Graham demonstration near the Historic Courthouse after his trial on March 3, 2021. Surveillance camera footage provided by the City of Graham showed that Wells was waving an Afro-American flag, a version of the national flag colored with black, red and green, across from sheriff deputies who had surrounded the Alamance County Historic Courthouse and its Confederate monument.