Joseph Shapiro
speaker
255 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jul
Joseph Shapiro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They just sat and were quiet.
The Gang of 19 had been taught how to do civil disobedience by Wade Blank.
They knew to stand their ground, and that created a problem for the police.
Well, they weren't going to arrest anybody in a wheelchair.
That...
That was pretty obvious.
Bill Rome was a personal care attendant.
Not only would the optics look bad, but the actual process of trying to get them off the street and getting them into wheelchair inaccessible vans to take to the police.
I just don't think that was on their itinerary.
The police could not figure out how to arrest people in wheelchairs.
Buses weren't accessible, nor police vans, the jail, or the courthouse.
So instead, they began detaining the aides, assisting those in wheelchairs.
Wheeler and Rome were not disabled, nor were they protesting.
As attendants, their role was to help the disabled protesters eat, take medicines, empty catheters.
In other words, to ensure those people in wheelchairs were healthy and safe.
I moved to dismiss the charges on the grounds of equal protection violation.
Attorney John Holland went to court to get the charges against the attendants dropped.
What lesson were they teaching?
The lesson was you don't even deserve to have a civil rights movement, which pissed everybody off.
Holland argued that the disabled members of the Gang of 19 had been denied their civil right to be arrested.
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