[Peace] RE: Fake guns

[Danielle Chynoweth]

Peace friends,

I strongly advise AGAINST using fake guns.  There are numerous reports of
police shooting folks holding toy guns.  I do not trust Champaign police
in this matter.  Don't forget that the Champaign police killed a man less
than two years ago because his crouching behind a dumpster made them
suspicious.

I would use your arms to make a gun for the theater.  Toy guns aren't
necessary for the message to get across.

After watching police beat people for reaching for a cell phone or a water
bottle, I am particularly sensitive the the possibility of violence.

generally scared of provoking police,

danielle

> -----Original Message-----
> From: parenti susan rose [mailto:sparenti at staff.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 2:49 PM
> To: peace at lists.groogroo.com; sdas at onthejob.net
> Subject: [Peace] fake guns for street theater?
>
>
> Tomorrow, on Prospect, we want to slowly carry the huge coffin with
> the sign HUMANITY on it, and have a few people with USA on their shirts
> point guns at the coffin as they slowly march it up and down the streets.
>
> A kind of simple idea, but at least it's theater.
>
> Does anyone have kids rifles? Or can help us figure out if we can carry
> unloaded rifles without the cops stopping us?
>
> Or if you have another idea?
> (We need things to be simple.)
>
> HELP
>
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