Jackson And Pfleger Arrested During Gun Shop Protest

My Fox Chicago ^ | 6/23/07 | Staff

[NRA2BFree]

Riverdale, IL. -- According to Jackson's spokesperson, the Reverend and Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Church, got arrested while rallying against gun violence outside Chucks Gun Shop at 14310 South Indiana Ave., Riverdale.

A press release from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition said police officers handcuffed and arrested the two men at approximately 1:30 p.m. as they led an anti-gun protest and engaged in civil disobedience.

Jackson and Pfleger have since been released by Riverdale Police by 4 p.m.

In wake of the deaths of 35 Chicago Public School students since January, Jackson and Rainbow PUSH Coalition constituents are demanding new laws to ban the purchase of more than one gun a month, as well as mandating thorough background checks and a longer wait time to buy guns.

"The police watch the people who come into town with fireworks from Indiana, why can’t they watch who’s buying these guns and bringing them into the city,” Jackson said. “We have never known this level of endangerment, this is the struggle of this generation.”

One weekend ago, Jackson and Pfleger led another march to the same gun shop, which started at Park Elementary School on the 14200 block of South Wentworth Avenue, and were joined by Chicago police officer Ronald Holt, father of slain 16-year-old Percy Julian High School honor student Blair Holt.

[NRA2BFree]

lol...

[TheDon]

Looks like Jesse likes it when only criminals have guns.

[South40]

[mware]

Fr. Pfleger is the Catholic Priest that wanted to snuff out the owner of a gun shop.

He needs to be called to Rome and straightened out.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Jackson is irrelevant. He doesn’t speak for today’s black Americans.

[tioga]

Isn’t this the same Catholic priest linked to louis farrakhan?

[skimbell]

Pfleger is the jagoff Roman Catholic priest that said that Chuck, the owner of the gun shop, needed to be “rubbed out”.

[mware]

Yeap, he is. Allowed Calypso Lewie to speak at his pulpit.

[P-40]

why can’t they watch who’s buying these guns and bringing them into the city

I guess they are too busy watching for fireworks violators. :)

[tioga]

There needs to be a recalls system for Catholic priests. Gees, he is nuts.

[umgud]

Jackson is irrelevant. He doesn’t speak for today’s black Americans.

Doesn't matter as he is the one the MSM puts up as such.

[mware]

From my understand his bishop has spoken to him numerous times. I have read that he even was thinking about reassigning him to another parish.

Something needs to be done.

[LouAvul]

Jesse Jackson, race pimp who is desperate for recognition. What an absolute waste of oxygen. Plus, he always has that blank look in his eyes. I think he’s smoking crack.

[FReepapalooza]

Pfleger is a pflemball!

[tioga]

I don’t think he should be a pastor, perhaps an assistant pastor. He shows no common sense.

[Tijeras_Slim]

They need to reassign him to the tiny church in Chilili NM. It was founded in 1801, seats about 15, and if he spouts off about guns the locals will feed him to pigs.

[bill1952]

Zimbabwe is in real need of such pastors...

[mware]

His bishop is considered pretty conservative. I can’t see this behavior continuing much longer. It was only last week or the week before that he made a speech threatening to snuff out the owner of a gun shop.

[TheMom]

Jesse Jackson is 6’6”?

[NonValueAdded]

Of those 35 children, how many were shot by the original owner of guns purchased at a legitimate gun store? Or were they all gang-violence shootings? Gee, which could it be?