Bodycam Footage & GoFundMe for Legal Fees
Channel: Colburn Clark 
Date: 28/06/2023

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BACKSTORY
https://www.propublica.org/article/conway-arkansas-school-board-high-school-arrests

ARKANSAS TIMES STORY ABOUT MY SENTENCING
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/05/25/trans-rights-advocate-sentenced-to-jail-time-for-conway-school-board-protest

My name is Colburn Clark. On November 8th of last year, I was arrested for protesting against a policy that restricted transgender students from using the bathroom of the gender they identify with.

I chose to participate in this protest after a local homophobic preacher said LGBT people deserve to die during a public school board meeting, was allowed to continue speaking by the board, and was later thanked and defended online by the Conway Public Schools Board.

I along with 50 to 60 other people, chanted trans lives matter and did not threaten or act violently in any way. I chose to stay behind after police shoved most of the other protesters out of the building after threatening them with arrest.

I was charged along with two other University of Central Arkansas students with criminal trespass and failure to disperse, two misdemeanors.

On May 25th 2023, I was sentenced to jail time by the former executive director of the Arkansas Republican Party, Judge Chris Carnahan, who has told the press judicial ethics do not apply to him.

This was after the city prosecutor and my lawyer agreed to a fine with no jail time. Chris Carnahan rejected that deal and added jail time to the $650 fine to virtue signal to other Arkansas conservatives after his failed bid for Arkansas Supreme Court in 2022.

I am a veteran and lost several friends I served with.

I wore my unit t-shirt to trial, Chris Carnahan saw it, and he still sentenced me to jail on Memorial Day weekend.

On the day of my bench trial, he gave a man he found guilty of DUI only 2 days in jail (I was sentenced to 3 days in jail) to be served whenever the drunk driver wanted to serve them within the next month.

I was immediately put in handcuffs and taken to jail for sitting on a floor of a public meeting place and chanting, "TRANS LIVES MATTER".

I am an ethical vegan as part of a practice of a non-theistic religion, the Faulkner County Detention Center would not accomodate my religious beliefs and offer me vegan food, so I went without eating in the jail for 24 hours.

My lawyer is charging $1500 to appeal my case in circuit court so I can possibly avoid serving the other 2 days of my sentence.

I would do the two days in jail and save the $1500, but I am not confident that the Faulkner County Detention Center would accomodate my religious beliefs and vegan diet.

I had to borrow money from my Mom, who is not rich, to pay my lawyer.

She also paid him $150 the Friday evening I got out of jail on Memorial Day weekend.

I need help to reimburse my Mom. Any donations over the $1650, I will donate to Intransitive, an Arkansas-based transgender assistance group.

Please see the YouTube video I made for bodycam footage of the arrest..

Thanks, Colburn Clark
TRANS LIVES MATTER