Where:Richmond Police Department
200 W. Grace Street, Richmond, VA 23220
When: Friday March 23 – 3:30pm
Richmond Police have decided to classify a harmless children’s activity – drawing pictures with sidewalk chalk – as a crime.
This week a mother was issued a ticket for her daughter’s use of sidewalk chalk on some rocks at Belle Isle. You can see more information on this story here: http://www.nbc12.com/story/17191109/woman-ticketed
This kind of police thuggery has no place in a civilized society. Nobody was hurt, or even inconvenienced by the child’s artwork, making this action in no way a crime. However, Richmond Police have decided to waste police resources (funded by tax payers) on harassing children, rather than fighting crime.
To peacefully show our disapproval of these actions from our public servants, we will gather at the police station with signs and sidewalk chalk. Show them that drawing pretty pictures with chalk is not a criminal activity.
You can find information about the event on the Facebook Event Page.
****We will be bringing buckets, brushes, and soap as well (so if police claim we are damaging property, we show that we have every intention of cleaning up after ourselves… we are only there to make a point).
2 comments
G
March 20, 2012 at 8:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Richard Onley Or if you’d rather: “I’ve come from Knox / To chalk your rocks”:
I CHALK YOUR SHRINE (“I Walk the Line”—Johnny Cash)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmHNfWRw-qg
… The Fed’ral Building stands for rule of law,
Disgorging dread directives from its maw.
They’d like to disregard this line I draw.
To leave my sign,
I chalk your shrine.
Chalk fades when rainclouds next provide a bath,
But people treading the untrodden path
Are treaded on as targets for your wrath.
Since cops are swine,
I chalk your shrine.
I’ll fight the tyranny you’re dreaming of
Plotting inside your “Ministry of ‘Love.’ ”
You think your power makes you God above—
You’re not divine.
I chalk your shrine.
You make the rules up as you go along.
You’re so corrupt, you can’t tell right from wrong.
The unmourned past is where you thugs belong.
Despite your fine,
I chalk your shrine.
The Fed’ral Building stands for rule of law,
Disgorging dread directives from its maw.
They’d like to disregard this line I draw.
Cops who are slime
Make chalk a crime.
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COPYRIGHT N 2010 by Sam A. Robrin or whoever the hell it is who writes these things. Go ahead and use it (hey,I lifted the melody), but if you make a little money on it, I want some!See MoreJohnny Cash: Walk the Line
http://www.youtube.com
David
March 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Several Norfolk Occupiers were hauled into court on the heinous charges of desecrating a monument by putting messages of love and peace on the local Confederate Monument, oposite Commercial Park, the site of a recent past Occupation. The charges were dismissed. Thus far, local Occupiers are 4-0 against the overreach of the local pols.