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Subject: Man Arrested After Refusing to Remove Anti-War Shirt in Mall
BOYCOTT! Crossgates Mall in ALbany NY.
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Man Arrested After Refusing to Remove Anti-War Shirt in Mall
Wednesday, March 05, 2003
ALBANY, N.Y. — A man was charged with trespassing in a mall after he refused to take off a T-shirt that said "Peace on Earth" and "Give peace a chance."
Mall security approached Stephen Downs, 61, and his 31-year-old son, Roger, on Monday night after they were spotted wearing the T-shirts at Crossgates Mall
in a suburb of Albany, the men said.
The two said they were asked to remove the shirts made at a store there, or leave the mall. They refused.
The guards returned with a police officer who repeated the ultimatum. The son took his T-shirt off, but the father refused.
"'I said, `All right then, arrest me if you have to,"' Downs said. "So that's what they did. They put the handcuffs on and took me away."
Downs pleaded innocent to the charges Monday night. The New York Civil Liberties Union said it would help with his case if asked.
Police Chief James Murley said his officers were just responding to a complaint by mall security.
"We don't care what they have on their shirts, but they were asked to leave the property, and it's private property," Murley said.
A mall spokeswoman did not return calls Tuesday seeking comment.
Monday's arrest came less than three months after about 20 peace activists wearing similar T-shirts were told to leave by mall security and police. There were no arrests.............................
This so-called "patriot" CRAP! is being taken too far! This is still America, isn't it? The last time I looked we still lived by the constitution of this country, or has Bush canned it? Crossgates Mall in suburban Albany, needs to be turned into a ghost town, no oneshould go near the place, spend your money any place but there, sofar, we still have a few freedoms left, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and most important, the freedom to VOTE! To VOTE IDIOTS! out of office. What is it going to take to wake up sleeping America? We still have a government, of the people, for the people and by the people. TH.
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