{"id":22358,"date":"2016-01-19T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22358"},"modified":"2016-01-19T11:28:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T16:28:56","slug":"activist-arrested-at-mlk-breakfast-in-worcester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/01\/19\/activist-arrested-at-mlk-breakfast-in-worcester\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Arrested at MLK Breakfast in Worcester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube<\/em> has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wwDH2qx04Hk\" target=\"_blank\">Activist Arrested at MLK Breakfast in Worcester<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPublished on Jan 18, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The MLK breakfast at Quinsigamond Community College was interrupted when a man at the back of gathering began handing out pamphlets and was confronted by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Horton, a Worcester resident and member of the Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Team, was escorted out in handcuffs after passing out pamphlets that read, \u201cBring Our Wealth Home!\u201d and \u201cBlack and Brown Wealth Matters!&#8221; Mr. Horton was brought to the ground while being taken into custody. An ambulance was summoned.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Horton, of 10 Tower St., Worcester, was charged with assault and battery on a police officer. The arrest was made by the campus police. According to a QCC spokesman, Mr. Horton told officers &#8220;he had a previous injury and asked to be taken to the hospital.&#8221; He was transported to UMass Memorial Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Rick Cinclair\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wwDH2qx04Hk?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Do you think there may have been any witnesses as to what happened here?  Do you suppose their testimony could clear up whether or not Chris assaulted a police officer?  If we let police officers behave this way in front of a huge audience, but do not hold them accountable, what message is society sending to police officers?<\/p>\n<p>I have been wondering, do you think that Martin Luther King, Jr. would have wanted his life&#8217;s work to be commemorated at decorous little breakfasts where someone would be arrested for standing up for the rights of the poor and the powerless?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video Activist Arrested at MLK Breakfast in Worcester. Published on Jan 18, 2016 The MLK breakfast at Quinsigamond Community College was interrupted when a man at the back of gathering began handing out pamphlets and was confronted by authorities. Chris Horton, a Worcester resident and member of the Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Team, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22358"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22367,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358\/revisions\/22367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}