Sheila Buck, art teacher arrested at Trump rally, plans to fight charge

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Art teacher arrested at Trump rally plans to fight charge

The 62-year-old grandmother hoped to take a stand against the president and police brutality. The Trump campaign told police to arrest her.

By Ziva Branstetter
6/21/2020, 5:59:49 p.m.

When Sheila Buck left her apartment two blocks from President Trump’s rally Saturday, she knew she might provoke some people with her black “I can’t breathe” T-shirt. She wound up handcuffed in a jail cell for hours, as video of her arrest played on television.

Buck had reserved a ticket to Trump’s rally days earlier. She planned to attend to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement, despite the risk to her health and safety.

A little after noon on Saturday, she showed her ticket to police and stepped into the outdoor area cordoned off for the event. When she knelt down to pray, she was asked to leave. When she refused, she was arrested at the request of the Trump campaign.

“There are some things worth dying for, and I’m tired of seeing what’s happening and what’s being done to black lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, specifically, but in this country,” Buck told The Washington Post in an interview after she was released from jail Saturday evening.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/21/sheila-buck-protester-arrested-trump-tulsa-rally/

[Thomas Hurt]

1. They won't charge her or the case will be dismissed.

The whole point of the exercise was to gin up something to give them an excuse to remove her.

Faux apologies will follow.

[Warpy]

6. There won't be any charges, period

She had a ticket to the event. They just didn't like her t-shirt.

However, she can file civil rights charges.

[3Hotdogs]

2. Should be worth about 30K

[gopiscrap]

3. does she need a GoFundme for legal expenses?

[BrightKnight]

9. She probably needs legal help. nt

[dalton99a]

4. Sue them also.

[SunSeeker]

5. So that's what triggered them, she knelt down to pray?

So much for MAGAt concerns about freedom of religion!

[Ford_Prefect]

7. I suspect it was taking a knee that got their attention since that's offensive to Trump's minions

[Traildogbob]

8. You said it

For the party of God, with a man he personally sent to be president, they sure do hate kneeling. Anyone think trump has ever kneeled to pray to his God that sent him, and even say thanks for your support? Guess if ya not a donor, you are trash. He did, to be fair, give the Bible a little air time and exposure. MAGA! The greatness is draining. Damn let’s go back to losing with the black guy. His economy and employment numbers sure sucked. And our standing in the world, what a joke Barrack, (do I need a sarcasm emoji here?)