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Woman placed in handcuffs at Trump protest (73 year old in Pennsylvania)
The Republican Herald ^ | August 3, 2018 | Eric Mark

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.”


TOPICS: Pennsylvania; Campaign News; State and Local
KEYWORDS: dopeydems; glod; lawenforcement; pa2018; pennsylvania; protests; trump; usefulidiots; wilkesbarre
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To: robowombat

You lose a stripe when you switch services so that’s unlikely.


41 posted on 08/03/2018 11:07:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“lost” is being charitable.

“Loser” is more accurate...


42 posted on 08/03/2018 11:10:44 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

Too bad. I’ve seen worse guys get straightened out by going to basic training and serving an enlistment.


43 posted on 08/03/2018 11:13:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Little overdone on the swag. 3 service ribbons per row? I thought it was more.


44 posted on 08/03/2018 11:18:41 PM PDT by Fhios (♫ Oh Where have you been Jeffy boy Jeffy boy oh where have you been charming Jeffy?)
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To: NFHale; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj

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.


45 posted on 08/03/2018 11:21:57 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The link above says he did serve in the Air Force as a C130 loadmasters apprentice but his Court Martial busted him from A1C back to AB (E1), gave him five months in the Stockade and a Bad Conduct Discharge for multiple drug violations.

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.

46 posted on 08/03/2018 11:22:44 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj

Ha... let her walk through my old north Philly neighborhood.

What an assclown. I thought we were supposed to get WISER with age.


47 posted on 08/03/2018 11:26:07 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

Maybe she is wiser, in which case I sure as hell wouldn’t have wanted to know her when she was young and dumb.


48 posted on 08/03/2018 11:30:24 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Impy

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.


49 posted on 08/03/2018 11:38:18 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

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.


50 posted on 08/03/2018 11:52:33 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: reg45

I thought it rhymed with “enemy”


51 posted on 08/04/2018 4:23:42 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Vermin from Hussein Obama’s Organizing for Action.


52 posted on 08/04/2018 5:46:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: NFHale; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; stephenjohnbanker

Speaking of Philly and judges:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Helfant

I won’t comment any further.


53 posted on 08/05/2018 4:02:26 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Impy; NFHale; LS; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; stephenjohnbanker; DarthVader

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/


54 posted on 08/05/2018 4:13:01 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Helfant was actually a New Jersey judge from Somers Point (southwest of Atlantic City).


55 posted on 08/05/2018 5:13:19 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That was AirForce dress in that picture. So much for the reporting.


56 posted on 08/05/2018 5:17:06 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Men and Devils can't out-"alinsksy" God! He knows where "all the bodies are buried!")
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; stephenjohnbanker

“..Nicodemo Scarfo, ...”

Wow, THERE’s a name I haven’t heard in years. Blast from the Past...


57 posted on 08/05/2018 6:42:27 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Geography aside...he was taken care of.


58 posted on 08/05/2018 8:46:36 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: NFHale

The streets were safer when “they” were running things, weren’t they?


59 posted on 08/05/2018 8:50:22 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

“..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.


60 posted on 08/05/2018 8:56:48 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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