85-year-old rabbi arrested while protesting outside immigration office
Source: JTA
July 2, 2018 4:33pm
(JTA) — Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a longtime political activist, was arrested while protesting outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Philadelphia.
Waskow, 85, required assistance to stand and walk with his cane after he was handcuffed with a plastic tie on Friday by police outside the ICE office in the city.
He and six others who call themselves Elders and Friends Standing With Immigrant Children and Their Parents were arrested for blocking access to the office. They had been sitting outside the office for about two hours before police arrived. The protesters were cited for “failure to disperse” and later released.
Waskow made a speech before he was arrested that was caught on video and posted on Twitter.
Read more: https://www.jta.org/2018/07/02/news-opinion/85-year-old-rabbi-arrested-while-protesting-outside-immigration-office
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