Posted on 08/03/2018 8:14:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WILKES-BARRE — Police took a 73-year-old Wilkes-Barre woman into custody during a protest against President Donald Trump outside Mohegan Sun Arena on Thursday.
Andrea Glod was the only one among several hundred protestors who refused police commands to move off Highland Park Boulevard by the Interstate 81 exit ramp, minutes before Trump’s motorcade arrived.
The roadway was blockaded and guarded by dozens of police officers, including state troopers on horseback, as most of the crowd moved the protest onto the side of the road. Glod stood her ground.
“It started with a young state trooper who said, ‘You have to get off the road,’ ” Glod said in a phone interview Thursday night.
Glod said she told the trooper there was no traffic because police had closed the road, and that she wanted the president to be able to see the group’s protest signs as he drove by.
“He said, ‘You have to get off the road,’ ” Glod said.
When the trooper threatened to arrest her if she refused to move, Glod said she told him he would have to arrest her to get her out of the roadway.
He took her into custody and placed her in handcuffs. The crowd of protesters burst into cheers for Glod as the anti-Trump jeers and chants grew louder.
Glod said police searched her, to make sure she had no weapons, then issued her a citation for disorderly conduct.
Asked if she would do things the same way again if given the chance, Glod replied, “I must say the opportunity to demonstrate against Trump, who is a disgrace to the presidency and the United States of America ... I would do it the same way.”
Apart from the confrontation between Glod and police, the protest was peaceful, if vigorous.
The protesters — some who came on their own, along with many who belonged to activist groups such as Action Together, Refuse Fascism, Planned Parenthood and Indivisible — held up signs, chanted and marched as close to the arena as police would let them.
“Hey hey, ho ho, traitor Trump has got to go,” went one chant. Another was the simple “lock him up.”
Slogans on signs included “Impeach Trump,” “Hate has no home here” and “I miss Obama.”
Anne Aston, of Shavertown, said she showed up Thursday “to let people know a lot of people are not happy with Trump.”
Aston said she is tired of the president’s “lying and hypocrisy,” which she said has destroyed his credibility.
Other protesters objected to the separation of immigrant children from their parents at the Mexican border.
“Where are the children?” one man shouted as Trump supporters walked by on their way to the arena.
Jeff Zimmerman, 63, of Wyoming County, said he had never been politically active until the 2016 presidential election.
Zimmerman, who served in the Army for more than 20 years, said he decided to get involved in anti-Trump protests when he “saw the con man who became our commander in chief.”
You lose a stripe when you switch services so that’s unlikely.
“lost” is being charitable.
“Loser” is more accurate...
Too bad. I’ve seen worse guys get straightened out by going to basic training and serving an enlistment.
Little overdone on the swag. 3 service ribbons per row? I thought it was more.
They should have driven her to Philly and dropped her off in the worst neighborhood at 2:AM, let’s see if liberalism would survive that.
Clearly the drugs, including ecstasy, mushrooms and huffing shoe cleaner totally destroyed his brain.
And get this, they even pointed out that if he had been prior Army any valid combat badges could rightfully have been converted to the new Air Force "Combat Action Medal" which he was also wearing on his mystical breastplate.
Ha... let her walk through my old north Philly neighborhood.
What an assclown. I thought we were supposed to get WISER with age.
Maybe she is wiser, in which case I sure as hell wouldn’t have wanted to know her when she was young and dumb.
Protesting is one thing; I support her right to do so.
But blocking the road, refusing to move out of the way when a lawful request from the officer... just stupid.
Pretty damned sick of these leftardnik idiots. Get over it, fools. Our guy won, the witch lost.
There was a protest Thursday in Chicago, they clogged up Lake Shore Drive and tried to disrupt a Cubs game to “redistribute their pain” to more well off people, the local news said everyone they talked to sympathized, I don’t by it. They claimed 500 people, looked like 200 tops.
A couple weeks ago a libturd Ebonics speaking (Lily White) “Priest” who makes Frankie Bergoligo look like Mother Theresa led an “anti-violence” march on the friggin expressway! Blocking traffic IS an act of violence as far as I’m concerned.
I thought it rhymed with “enemy”
Vermin from Hussein Obama’s Organizing for Action.
Speaking of Philly and judges:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Helfant
I won’t comment any further.
IDK if you’ve seen the story about the anti-White “journalist” over at the NYT, but here’s an excellent piece on that situation:
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/diversity-proximity-war-sarah-jeong-edition/
Helfant was actually a New Jersey judge from Somers Point (southwest of Atlantic City).
That was AirForce dress in that picture. So much for the reporting.
“..Nicodemo Scarfo, ...”
Wow, THERE’s a name I haven’t heard in years. Blast from the Past...
Geography aside...he was taken care of.
The streets were safer when “they” were running things, weren’t they?
“..safer ...”
Let’s just say there was a time when I DIDN’T have to escort my grandmother to the supermarket with a baseball bat... and then all of sudden there WAS.
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