Guest guest Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 PRIVATIZED T-SHIRT ABUSE CNN - A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall. According to the criminal complaint filed Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words " Give Peace A Chance " that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, New York, near Albany. . . When Downs refused the security officers' orders, police from the town of Guilderland were called and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs, charged with trespassing " in that he knowingly enter(ed) or remain(ed) unlawfully upon premises, " the complaint read. Downs said police tried to convince him he was wrong in his actions by refusing to remove the T-shirt because the mall " was like a private house and that I was acting poorly. I told them the analogy was not good and I was then hauled off to night court where I was arraigned after pleading not guilty and released on my own recognizance, " Downs told Reuters in a telephone interview. Downs is the director of the Albany Office of the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, which investigates complaints of misconduct against judges and can admonish, censure or remove judges found to have engaged in misconduct. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/03/04/iraq.usa.shirt.reut/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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