From: "Robert G Lewis" 

http://www.dailygazette.com/main.shtml#storyA08D0004

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=112222&category=REGIO
N&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=3/5/2003

two local papers on the action. Not that much different from the Reuters article

The first mentions some of the legal issues.Based on the first story I
think Downs may have decided he wanted to be arrested after they asked him
to remove the shirt or leave.

Still I think the Mall should not have done what they did.

Bob Lewis

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
news:qcsc6vocilek92t3l6jfsb6bljo8n9v97s{at}4ax.com...
> On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:55:39 -0500, Gary Wiltshire 
> wrote:
>
> >You don't know what you're talking about.  The local press, unlike the
> >slanted Reuters quote,
>
> How do I know that Reuter's slanted and the local press is not?  I'd
> bet that the mall pours lots of money into local coffers and spends
> plenty of advertising money with local newpapers.
>
> At any rate, if the arrestees were harassing people, they should have
> been evicted.  If not, then the mall/guards were in the wrong.
>
> >Also, Crossgates Mall is not a "public place" but
private property and
> >there is plenty of legal precedent to back that distinction up.
>
> You can't refuse to serve people because of religion, gender, race or
> sexual orientation, I do not believe that discrimination based on
> political persuasion is permitted, either.
>
>

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