Citizen-Times: Asheville mutual aid volunteers face 'absurd' felony littering charges, lawyer says

"When you have laws that don’t get enforced in a while, and seem to be aimed at some other problem being used against protesters, then that always raises a concern," [professor of First Amendment and freedom of speech at Elon University School of Law] Armijo said. 

Yep! Here's a thoroughly-reported article from the Citizen-Times.