section_path: Protests by U.S. state/North Carolina
section_name: North Carolina
paragraph_text: North Carolina
  
  Protests were held in Charlotte and suburbs such as Concord. In the Research Triangle, protests were held in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Cary, and Morrisville. In the Triad, protests were held in Lexington, High Point, and Winston-Salem. In Wilmington, state representative Deb Butler spoke at a protest. Other cities and towns with protests were Fayetteville, Greenville, Asheville, Bryson City, Waynesville, Sylva, Sparta, Oxford, Sanford, Jacksonville, West Jefferson, and Hayesville. North Carolina state representative Julie von Haefen incited controversy by posting an image taken at a No Kings rally in North Carolina, depicting a woman holding effigies of two severed heads and a bloody guillotine, leading many Republicans to question whether she was promoting the assassination of Donald Trump. Von Haefen took the image and her X account down after the controversy erupted.