Posted on 06/24/2007 9:49:59 AM PDT by stm
CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested Saturday at a demonstration outside a south suburban gun shop and charged with one count of criminal trespass to property.
Jackson was arrested when he refused to move away from the entrance to Chuck's Gun Shop in Riverdale, police said. He has protested with other community activists outside the shop in recent weeks after a 16-year-old honor student was gunned down on a city bus.
Police said the shooting was gang-related but the teen was not the intended target.
Jackson, who says the gun shop's proximity to Chicago provides gang members and criminals easy access to firearms, has used the protests to call for stricter gun laws.
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He did that so that the media could once again say “the civil rights leader .....”
Instead of saying that an irrelevant jerk got himself arrested so as to take the focus off the irresponsible people who use guns irresponsibly.
Jessie needs some media time to get them up.
I’ll bet that Jesse Jackson’s bodyguards go armed.
As for being arrested: “Don trow me in ‘dat briar patch.”
Perhaps this is Jesse’s attempt to get on the good side of Bloomberg, before he announces. ;-)
Might be able to get some, eh-hem, “donations” from the mayor who wants to be president.
Where do these guys (Jesse, Al Sharpton, and other racial arsonists) get their money, btw? Does anyone know?
How dare they arrest a Black Leader for breaking the law, making a dam niusance of himself, and getting in the way of law-abiding citizens?
What is this world coming to?
**faints from shock**
He sounds tired. Tired of this BS. How old is he?
Hmmph!!!! I resemble that scurrilous remark!!!!
I only wanted to transfewr my remark on the article.
Oh well. Yawn.
I accidently strayed too far south in Chicago last week and felt positively naked without my guns. What a scarey place! WARNING! Do not not venture south of the Science and Industry museum unless you drive a tank.
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