Three squads of police for one lone man with campaign literature? Sounds
like a riot to me!
This happened at the Target Center last year when someone was kicked off the
sidewalk by the
police, being told it was not public property.
When is public property considered not public property? When and where can
you have freedom
of speech? Politics aside on this issue, we have a first amendment issue and
a misuse of power
by both the Park Superintendent and the Police force. It will be interesting
to see what the ACLU
comes up with.
Now considering the political aspect....would Gurban have done this if it
had been Carol?
Dorie Rae Gallagher/Nokomis
In the "spirit of cooperation", Stone then moved at least a hundred feet
from the recreation
center entrance, to a spot on the sidewalk just a couple feet from the
parking lot. Three police
squad cars arrived simultaneously just five minutes after the original
conversation with Gurban.
Stone greeted the police and asked if he was acting unlawfully. Stone
noted, "The officers
respectfully, but forcefully ordered me to stop distributing literature,
and said I could not do
so on private land. I corrected them, indicating that we were standing on
public land. They
replied 'sort of', and that I had to stop distributing literature."
Campaign Contact :
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