This is the only video of what actually happened at the event this afternoon. The news only showed the woman being escorted away by the police. What happened was the women walked in with signs, the crowd booed and yelled at the women. The women rolled up their posters and put them down. A photographer/reporter approached the woman on the end and wanted to see what the poster was. As the woman went to show the photographer/reporter what the poster was, a man from the bleachers stood up and snatched the poster from the woman and photographer/reporter. As the woman went to retrieve her poster the police stepped in and escorted the woman and the man from the building....
One individual decided to take on the physical role of sign enforcer.
I spoke with Maxine Johnson outside the field house after the event was over:
Show Me Progress: So, what happened? What happened, did, after you sat down?
Maxine Johnson: When I sat down I put my sign in the chair in front of me. It was rolled up. And the reporter kind of, news reporter crawled over there, she was standing up and she asked could she take a picture of the sign. We unrolled the sign laying down in the chair. And she was taking a picture of Rosa Parks. This man comes out of the crowd, snatch my sign, I stood up, they said he pushed me. I don't remember anything 'cause you know by that time my adrenaline going everywhere...All I'm thinking about is getting my sign back. I got up in...to proceed, go get my sign back. 'Cause he was crumbling it up. I said, "Give my sign back!" When I said that, next thing I know I had four police officers on me and one on him. I'm the victim here, [laugh] you know. And then as I say, "I'm pressing charges!"...I said, "Obama, Obama!" So, you know what, you know like I said Rosa Parks fought for our freedom back then, now I'm fighting for our freedom now...So we're fighting for the next generation...
