Rev. Jackson arrested in gun shop protest
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Rev. Jackson arrested in gun shop protest
By Michelle Gallardo
June 23, 2007 - Rev. Jesse Jackson was among those arrested while demonstrating outside a south suburban gun shop. Father Michael Pleger was also arrested.
They were released around 3:45 p.m. Saturday, but they were back inside the police station in Riverdale Saturday evening talking to the police and trying to press charges against the gun shop owner who called the police on them.
The arrests stemmed from a gun control march that Saturday afternoon. Chuck's Gun Shop has often been linked to guns that are later used in crimes. Therefore, it is a frequent target of gun control activists.
Jackson and Pfleger claim that, at one point, they were invited in by the gun shop owner, but they declined, fearing for their safety. They also claim that the shopkeeper pushed Reverend Jackson just before they were arrested.
" The police believe that store has a right to lock us out and that is not offensive to push us physically," Jackson said.
"We stopped nobody from going in or coming out," Pfleger said. "They said we were being arrested for trespassing. According to what is written on my paper, [we] 'knowingly entered and remained on the property.' I never entered anything. I was standing on the sidewalk."
Reverend Jackson is pressing charges against the gun shop owner for what he said was an assault on his person. The incident only intensifies activists desire to see the doors to the gun shop shut.
Marchers will be at the shop again on Friday at noon.
ABC7 Chicago spoke to the gun shop owner and he also said that he invited Jackson and Pfleger in, and when they did not accept his invitation to come in and talk to him, that is when he called the police. However, he did not address charges as to whether he pushed or did not push Reverend Jackson.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5415826
Rev. Jackson arrested in gun shop protest
By Michelle Gallardo
June 23, 2007 - Rev. Jesse Jackson was among those arrested while demonstrating outside a south suburban gun shop. Father Michael Pleger was also arrested.
They were released around 3:45 p.m. Saturday, but they were back inside the police station in Riverdale Saturday evening talking to the police and trying to press charges against the gun shop owner who called the police on them.
The arrests stemmed from a gun control march that Saturday afternoon. Chuck's Gun Shop has often been linked to guns that are later used in crimes. Therefore, it is a frequent target of gun control activists.
Jackson and Pfleger claim that, at one point, they were invited in by the gun shop owner, but they declined, fearing for their safety. They also claim that the shopkeeper pushed Reverend Jackson just before they were arrested.
" The police believe that store has a right to lock us out and that is not offensive to push us physically," Jackson said.
"We stopped nobody from going in or coming out," Pfleger said. "They said we were being arrested for trespassing. According to what is written on my paper, [we] 'knowingly entered and remained on the property.' I never entered anything. I was standing on the sidewalk."
Reverend Jackson is pressing charges against the gun shop owner for what he said was an assault on his person. The incident only intensifies activists desire to see the doors to the gun shop shut.
Marchers will be at the shop again on Friday at noon.
ABC7 Chicago spoke to the gun shop owner and he also said that he invited Jackson and Pfleger in, and when they did not accept his invitation to come in and talk to him, that is when he called the police. However, he did not address charges as to whether he pushed or did not push Reverend Jackson.
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Can't say, "Reverend Jackson" without smiling - farce - con man ... but not Reverend.[:D] 0 -
They would like to close the gun shops for legal gun users so the monkeys in gangs with illegal guns will have all the firepower. 0 -
Why doesn't he go out and protest the gangs? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by ljwrench
Why doesn't he go out and protest the gangs?
Would lose to many followers.[;)]0 -
Jesse, what a fraud. 0 -
No money for HIM in the gangs. 0 -
Oughta have a GB git-together at Chucks and everyone buy a gun from him that day to show support. 0 -
Of course, the biggest problem in organizing conservative protests is that we all have jobs to go to, because we're not sharp enough to live off of OPM (Other People's Money). 0 -
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
Can't say, "Reverend Jackson" without smiling - farce - con man ... but not Reverend.[:D]
Yeah ...they should'a shot him0 -
Did Jackson spit on the white folk's guns or just the hymie's guns, or has he developed some real class lately?[:0] 0 -
Whatta piece of crap that whole story was.
"Activists" like the crowd milling around in front of ANY business have the right to peaceably assemble, but not to intimidate customers or impair traffic flow, or press charges when the owner of the business has had enough and tries to legally have them dispersed.
It's another flimsy attempt to blame an inanimate object for all the worlds' ills.
IMO, the reporter AND Jesse both deserve to live in Chicago.0 -
It was obviously a racial attack. 0 -
I wish that piece of human garbage would protest a shop close enough for me to go patronize it while he was there.
He "feared for his safety." That sounds actionable in civil court right there. He is implying that the shop owner posed a threat to him.0
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