61 year old man arested for wearing Peace T-Shirt

The mall is legally correct, but morally wrong.

It is private property, so they can legally ask people to leave if they display images that disrupt that retail environment that the mall management is trying to create. If the person(s) does not leave after being issued a trespass warning, they can be arrested for trespassing on private property.

But I believe the mall is morally wrong to discriminate against their customers on the basis of political or religious viewpoints expressed on their clothing.

Based on the evidence presented in this story, I think the mall was wrong, but this man has no case because the mall is private property.

BTW, notice that the local chapter of the ACLU is willing to help.

 

True, it is private property, but that quote about "we don't care what they have on their shirts" doesn't really support that the men were asked to remove the shirts or leave.

 

Wha-a-a-a?

I smell law suit, but I also smell something that
stinks.

 

I saw this on Excite with a similar headline. The man was not arrested for wearing a TShirt as the headlines say. He was arrested for insubordination and tresspassing. Even if the mall was wrong morally, I still don't like how the media is making it out to be that he was just sitting there eating a piece of pizza when suddenly, out of nowhere, and with no warning the police show up, cuff him and throw him in the back of the squad car.

 

Well, it's true that he was arrested for trespassing - this article said so in the first line - but what's questionable is why he was asked to leave the property in the first place, causing a trespass order to be issued. We aren't told what he was doing, no, but there's no mention made of him doing anything but being in the mall peacefully, going about his business, wearing a t-shirt that "they" didn't like. So, yes, his actions caused him to be arrested, and it was his choice not to comply with the request, so I'm not feeling too badly for him, but I still have to wonder at why he would be asked such a thing in the first place.

What really fascinated me is that, according to the article, the shirts were made at the mall, in a store or kiosk, I'm guessing.

 

I think those things came through in the article.
Anyone reading it would understand. But the ting
that disturbs me is that ther is no mall I know of
in the U.S. that would boot people out for wearing
immoral clothing, but they would boot a senior
citizen wearing a "Peace" t-shirt.

It further disturbs me that the t-shirts were made
in the mall, but I did no read that the t-shirt makers
were booted and their business closed for making
them.

I don't care if these two men walked into the mall
and had those t-shirts made simply to test mall
authority; the mall and/or its guards were wrong
to bot them based upon t-shirts with "Peace"
messages, just as it was wrong for that U.S.
business to demand that its employees remove
their U.S. flags placed at their work stations in
honor of the 9-11 victims and in honor of their
country.

 

This is interesting. I on several occaisions witnessed Disneyland sercurity forbidding persons fromentering. In one case, the person did not adhere to the dress code (shirt required). In another, the person had a sweatshirt with a large cannibus leaf on it. In another, a person wearing a t-shirt with a drawing of a topless woman was forbidden. In yet another (this was a while ago), a person was forbidden from entering while wearing a shirt that read (and I will edit here) "F*ck Reagan".

One could argue that these people were entitled to free speach, but the park is also private property, and allowed to enforce whatever dress code they deem appropriate for their patrons. I agree with the previous statement that the mall may be legally correct, but morally wrong.