"DADT Protesters Arrested at White House" (again)

[Clio the Leo]

DADT Protesters Arrested at White House
By Kerry Eleveld and Andrew Harmon



In a second round of civil disobedience at the White House organized by the grassroots group GetEQUAL, six LGBT service members were arrested after handcuffing themselves to the perimeter fence Tuesday afternoon to protest “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

The protesters included Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo II, who handcuffed themselves, in uniform, to the same fence last month. Pietrangelo was discharged from the military under the gay ban, while Choi's discharge is pending.

Shortly after 12 noon Eastern time, the six protesters unceremoniously approached the fence in uniform. Police officers did not realize the group had handcuffed themselves to the fence for several minutes. The stealth protest is in contrast to last month, when Choi led part of a separate Human Rights Campaign rally to the White House. He and Pietrangelo were then arrested for failure to obey a lawful order.

A U.S. Park Police spokesman told The Advocate that the six were arrested after three verbal warnings and were taken into custody. All have been charged with failure to obey a lawful order (the second such charge for Choi and Pietrangelo) and are currently being held at the police's Anacostia station. It is unclear if they will be detained overnight prior to a court hearing, as Choi and Pietrangelo were last month.

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http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/04/20/Protesters_Handcuffed_to_White_House_Fence/

[Ian David]

1. AGAIN? Don't these people have JOBS? Oh, wait... I forgot.

[Divine Discontent]

9. Heroes... I commend them and hope they know they're loved for their righteous disobedience.

[Uzybone]

2. if three tea baggers did this it would lead MSNBC and CNN

Keith and Big Ed would be huffing and puffing about it. Rick Sanchez would be reading misspelled twitter posts for the whole hour.

[kas125]

4. Yeah, if it had been teabaggers it would've been all over

the news. For this, they media was forced to leave the area and the entire park was closed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaBk1dUF9nM

[leeloo]

8. Yeah i was disgusted when i read that.....n/t

[marshall]

10. The White House security ran the reporters off

Media outlets were trying to get close enough to get statements but they were barred from getting close enough.

So the story they might have run wouldn't be about the protest itself, but about the clamping down on the media. I guess they didn't want to run with that.

[Cha]

3. Good..that's what Obama said before

he was elected..that it wasn't just about what he will do as President but what you, the people who love this country, can do to change it.

:patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot:

[jesus_of_suburbia]

5. Heroes.

[political_Dem]

6. Civil disobedience at its finest.

Since our country is built on putting the military on a pedestal, why can't all its soldiers be respected no matter what their sexual orientation?

[Tailormyst]

7. It pisses me off that they even have to do this.

SHAME ON OUR DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.

[mkultra]

11. now this is a good protest

This is the kind of attention the movement needs

[Bluenorthwest]

12. K and R

I never type that. I feel very DUish. Thanks for posting this.