Sutherland stood over fellow activist Natalie White, who was with the group Equal Means Equal, and represented the Roman goddess Virtus on the state seal, resting her left foot on the form of Tyranny, represented by the prostrate body of a man. White was lying on the ground to represent the man.

“They’re putting the goddess of virtue in jail and this is the goddess that is on the seal of Virginia overthrowing a tyrant,” White said. “You know that this is coming from a political standpoint.”

A magistrate on Monday set a secured bail of $700 for Sutherland, an artist who has lived in Brooklyn for five years and has no criminal record, according to Richmond General District Court records. But during a video arraignment Tuesday, Judge Lawrence B. Cann III ordered Sutherland to be held without bond. Cann, the court’s chief judge, declined to be interviewed.

Kevin Martingayle, a lawyer in Virginia Beach and past president of the Virginia State Bar, said holding Sutherland without bond is unusual.