Rev. Jesse Jackson arrested during anti-gun protest (Chicago, IL)

[davepc]

Source: Chicago Tribune

Two of the city's best-known activists wound up in police custody Saturday after a protest against gun violence outside a suburban gun store.

Revs. Jesse Jackson and Michael Pfleger, a South Side priest, were arrested about 1:30 p.m. for trespassing outside Chuck's Gun Shop in south suburban Riverdale, authorities said.

Though the arrests resulted in a minor charge for each man, it provided yet another platform from which to denounce the gun violence they say is plaguing the streets of Chicago.

As the two men were released from custody about 3 p.m., they walked triumphantly to the front of the Riverdale police station, where they were met by more than 50 cheering supporters, clapping and singing, "Victory Is Mine."

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070623jackson-arrested,1,5700739.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

[Ian David]

1. How do you get arrested for trespassing OUTSIDE someplace?

As the two men were released from custody about 3 p.m., they walked triumphantly to the front of the Riverdale police station, where they were met by more than 50 cheering supporters, clapping and singing, "Victory Is Mine."

[marshall]

2. Loitering?

Maybe they got him on some kind of loitering law that disallows people from standing in the entrance to a store.

I thought he'd be in Ohio making sure Bobby Cutts doesn't get run over by the Canton cop force.

[orleans]

10. maybe if he had bought a slushie from a 7-11 it wouldn't have been

considered loitering.

but, it's just not that hot today.

[donsu]

3. Jessie cares about children enough to get arrested protesting

GUNS in the hands of males

thank you Jessie

[Solo_in_MD]

4. I doubt that is why Jesse is there...guns are not why children are dieing

BTW this is a dup and over 12 hours old. Does not belong in LBN. Why don't you move it to the Guns forum where it belongs

[LiberalFighter]

5. dying not dieing

[Ian David]

6. There you go, blaming the hippies again...

[donsu]

7. lol

nt

[LiberalFighter]

8. I think hippies know how to spell

[Solo_in_MD]

14. Actually FIrefox does spell checking on the body but not the title and I have become too reliant on

it *sigh*

[madrchsod]

9. "guns are not why children are dieing"?

i take you do not live in the chicago land area...

[Solo_in_MD]

13. Its no different than LA or any other big city. Chicago needs to quit trying to control its

neighbors. The problem with symbolic protests, is that the site/person protested is rarely in a position to control/fix the problem. This is a classic case of exactly that. If that gun store closes or moves, it will not impact the violence in Chicago one bit.

The current moves to ban manufacture within Illinois of certain firearms and accessories are another good example. It will be a meaningless symbolic victory for Jesse and other Chicago pols, but do nothing to their violence problems. The Illinois companies that legislation will put out of business will simple move to a more rationale state and take their jobs with them. Of course those are not Chicago jobs, so it won't matter, at least not to Jesse and the Chicago pols.

[Retired AF Dem]

11. Than you should have no problem

with right wing lunatics blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic. A gun store and an abortion clinic are both legal. Protesters do not have the right to block the entrance to either.

[Solo_in_MD]

12. Not sure where you draw that conclusion from

Blocking an entrance to a legal business gets you arrested. That works for me. IIRC abortion clinic have a bit better protection in some if not all jurisdictions, but I would have to look it up to be specific.

[Retired AF Dem]

15. Sorry Solo

Posted in wrong place. Was ment for post #3.