Chattanooga library suspends protest leader C-Grimey to investigate burning of conservative books

Staff photo by Troy Stolt / Cameron "C-Grimey" Williams speaks to demonstrators during a protest in Miller Park on Friday, June 12, 2020. Williams, a leader of I Can't Breathe Chattanooga, helped to organize a revenue strike on Tuesday, June 16 that encourages small businesses to close in support of redistributing funds from the Chattanooga Police Department to community and social service organizations.
Staff photo by Troy Stolt / Cameron "C-Grimey" Williams speaks to demonstrators during a protest in Miller Park on Friday, June 12, 2020. Williams, a leader of I Can't Breathe Chattanooga, helped to organize a revenue strike on Tuesday, June 16 that encourages small businesses to close in support of redistributing funds from the Chattanooga Police Department to community and social service organizations.

Local activist and musician Cameron "C-Grimey" Williams is under investigation for allegedly burning Chattanooga Public Library books by conservative authors.

Williams, a local rapper and activist known for his role organizing protests against police brutality, was placed on paid administrative leave from his job as a library services coordinator this week after video surfaced of him apparently burning books by President Donald Trump and conservative commentator Ann Coulter, according to a spokesperson for the library.

In a video posted temporarily on Instagram on Tuesday, Williams appeared to burn copies of Coulter's "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)" and Trump's "Crippled America" in an outdoor fire, spraying each with lighter fluid. "FDT," a Trump protest song by YG and Nipsey Hussle, played in the background.

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