Protest against SB1070 outside MLB meeting leads to five arrests (no All-Star game in AZ)

[WilliamPitt]

Five arrested in All-Star protest
Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS -- Police arrested five protesters outside the quarterly meeting of Major League baseball team owners in Minneapolis.

They were among 100 people who gathered outside a downtown hotel Wednesday, trying to deliver petitions to commissioner Bud Selig to move the 2011 All-Star Game out of Arizona because of that state's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants. They say an event that could pump $60 million into Arizona's economy belongs elsewhere.

Police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer said Wednesday the five were booked into the Hennepin County Jail for trespassing after they refused to leave.

Numerous groups have asked baseball to move the All-Star Game from Arizona because of the law.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5457799

[Scurrilous]

1. K & R

:thumbsup:

[postulater]

2. Bud lives down the block from me.

His house isn't hard to find.

They could easily deliver stuff to him there without getting arrested. He'd probably answer the door.