Police arrest anti-war protester, 80, at mall
[Hat tip to Jeri Reed]
An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.
Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as “graphic anti-war images.” Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, said his shirt had the death tolls of American military personnel and Iraqis - 4,000 and 1 million - and the words “Dead” and “Enough.” The shirt also has three blotches resembling blood splatters.
Police said in a release last night that…
Legume Sam:
The oil gods are ANGRY! They demand HUMAN SACRIFICES!
30 March 2008, 5:57 pmxenia:
ahhh, those lovely property laws…property is everything, isn’t it?
31 March 2008, 12:53 ameoinmonkey:
I’ve been wondering this for a while, but when exactly did it become illegal to offend other people?
1 April 2008, 7:51 am