78-year-old walks 2.2 miles everyday carrying sign defending DACA. Arrested by HS

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This elderly man is Alan Dornan from Somerville, Massachusetts walks miles every single day with a sign that says "I walk for dreamers and all immigrants.

He was just taken into custody by homeland security officers for civil disobedience.

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Alan Dornan is in pain all the time.

The 78-year-old resident of Wethersfield, Connecticut, has scoliosis and spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spaces within the spine that can place pressure on the nerves and cause muscle weakness and pain.

But every day, Dornan braves the elements and the physical discomforts he experiences to walk 2.2 miles, holding a sign to advertise his purpose to passersby: “I WALK for DREAMers and all IMMIGRANTS.”

He started on January 25, and he hasn’t missed a day since.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2018/07/23/connecticut-alan-dornan-walking-two-miles-every-day-for-undocumented-immigrants

[llmart]

1. Where does it say he was arrested?

n/t

[femmedem]

3. He and several other protesters were arrested in front of a federal courthouse in Hartford.

He planned his civil disobedience to occur on the 21st anniversary of his son's death.

[USALiberal]

2. Not arrested for walking........

"he wasn't arrested for walking, he went to the courthouse with a group of people to purposefully demonstrate and get arrested for civil disobedience. It was his intention to do so. I salute him."

[llmart]

4. Thank you for the clarification.

Thoreau must be beaming from his grave.

[mountain grammy]

5. I salute him too!

[brooklynite]

6. UNREC

I respect his efforts, but the OP implies that he was arrested for walking. He was arrested for civil disobedience because that’s what he was doing.

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Really? "Unrec"? The OP doesn't imply that. It seems like a dangling fragment.

[USALiberal]

9. Ahhh, there is no unrec option anymore. That was years ago. nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. What a giant of a man. Salute!

And, what a jewel of a human being and inspiration for us all.......