Thursday, March 06, 2003

Crossgates withdrawing charges. Just found a report from the Chicago Tribune stating that Crossgates "asked that the complaint against Stephen Downs be withdrawn." Robert Downs, Stephen's son, is quoted with: [...]Dropping the charge would not rectify the arrest. "My father feels there's more to this. Crossgates hasn't examined what was wrong here," he said. "I think he'd like an apology." He said his father would wait to see how the mall handles the case before deciding whether to sue. This is a new and not particularly surprising development. We'll see if this ends protests at the mall. It's not over yet, though. 12:53:47 AM    comment [] Crossgatesgate cont. The folks at the smoking gun have once again dug up the docs, including reports by the security guards. One disparity already seems to be appearing. As I understood it, from radio interviews with both Stephen Downs and his son Robert, they stated they didn't approach other customers, but that folks approached them in support of their shirts. However, one deposition states, "they were stopping customers to express why they [were] wearing the t-shirts." (my emphasis) I don't pretend to know what happened, but there seems to be a definite difference as to what happened. ------ In partial response to my own request for more analysis, I borrow from a post by Technophobe in the discussion at boing boing: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1021/p03s01-usju.html http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/current/sct9905/04.htm http://www.curtis-arata.com/winart/rsc0185.html http://shoppingcenterworld.com/ar/retail_freedom_speech_mall/ http://www.afsc.org/nero/junenh.htm ------ There is a lengthy and occasionally fruitful discussion at MetaFilter on all this. 12:48:14 AM    comment []

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