Rabbis Recite Kaddish, Jewish Mourning Prayer, For Eric Garner, Later Arrested In NYC Protest

[okaawhatever]

Source: Huffington Post

Four prominent New York rabbis were arrested during protests against police brutality and racial injustice on Thursday night, along with more than 200 others taken into custody throughout the city.

Rabbis Sharon Kleinbaum, Jill Jacobs, David Rosenn and Shai Held, along with Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, joined thousands of other protesters who took to the streets Wednesday and Thursday evenings in opposition to a grand jury's decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Eric Garner.

Rabbi Jacobs told HuffPost by email that she and others arrived at the police station at roughly 11:30 p.m. and were held until 5:15 a.m. Friday morning. Despite the sleepless night, Jacobs said the protest was crucial to her as "a religious act" to highlight the "dignity of every single human being."

"Rabbis and all Jews need to stand up and say that every single person is a creation in the divine image -- that black lives matter," Jacobs said. "We put our bodies on the line to show how crucial it is that the systems meant to protect us do protect all of us."

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[jillan]

1. Unbelievable that they were arrested! WTF is going on?

[LiberalElite]

2. They did a civil disobedience sit-in on a busy street -

most of the time that results in arrest. (I've done them too and been arrested.)

[Reter]

3. Does it stay on your record for life?

Just curious if it will affect employment.

[LiberalElite]

5. Long story short, no. I was always charged with a violation - a violation in NY State

is not considered a crime. We'd get a ticket with a court date and at that date saw a judge, usually an administrative judge who wasn't fully empowered to dismiss the case outright. Our volunteer lawyers always advised us to plead guilty. Those who pled guilty got an "Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal" meaning behave for 6 months (don't get arrested again) and it goes away (record is sealed). Now if you resist arrest, (e.g., when they tell you to get up you don't and make them carry you) that is a misdemeanor crime. If the rabbis didn't resist, allowed themselves to be cuffed and went on their own power into the NYPD vehicle, based on my experience they'd get charged with a violation only. So, if asked on an employment application "have you ever been convicted of a crime" I can honestly say "NO" and so can the rabbis if they were charged with a violation.

[olddots]

4. this is good

A united front .

[Derek V]

6. "First, they came for the Jews..."