Dubois said he anticipated attacks after he filed the charges against Lucas-Burke “because I’m a white with a bald head and I look like a neo-Nazi.” He added that he didn’t identify as a Democrat or a Republican, but was for “common sense.”
He said he supported moving the city’s Confederate monuments but wanted the matter to play out through a normal civic process. And he said he would have filed the charges against Lucas-Burke if she were white.
“She broke the law, or the city charter, which is essentially the law,” Dubois said. “You can’t have politicians doing whatever they want whenever they feel like it, and that would be for anybody, whether it was another city council member who was white, or whatever the case, I would do the same thing.”
The group organizing around Lucas’ recall from the state Senate celebrated news of the charges against her daughter on Monday. “I hope she gets a cell right next to her mother lol,” one commenter wrote.
Despite claims from Dubois and others of race neutrality, Black political leaders in the Portsmouth region said that the unusual use of the criminal justice system against prominent Black politicians fit into a broader pattern.
“It appears that the political enemies of Sen. Lucas are also the enemies of her daughter,” state Del. Don Scott (D), who is representing Lucas, told HuffPost.
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