Christian Abortion Protesters Fight Back After Texas Arrests
Activists advocating to end abortion faced recent opposition when four members were arrested during a public protest near the Alamo in San Antonio on August 15. They were holding signs adn demonstrating outside the designated free speech zone,which is marked by a large star with a quote from Benjamin Franklin emphasizing free speech. Texas Department of Public Safety officers threatened to arrest them for criminal trespass unless they left the area, claiming they were protesting outside the permissible zone.
The protesters, represented by attorney CJ Grisham, argued their First Amendment rights to free speech in a customary public forum and challenged the legality of the rules enforced by the Alamo Trust, which manages the site. Despite efforts to stand within the “freedom circle,” they were unable to fit inside it, and ultimately, four were arrested for refusing to comply with the officers’ orders.
Grisham plans to contest the charges in court and potentially pursue a lawsuit, criticizing law enforcement for enforcing what he calls unconstitutional rules. The incident echoes previous conflicts involving protesters and police at public events, raising concerns about viewpoint discrimination and the restrictions placed on free speech in historically meaningful spaces.
Activists pushing to end abortion are fighting back hard after four of their members were arrested for publicly protesting abortion.
The arrests occurred on Aug. 15 near the Alamo in San Antonio, where the abortion abolitionists were holding signs in a public area, according to The Christian Post.
The signs and protests attracted the attention of several Texas Department of Public Safety officers who accused the group of protesting outside a “designated free speech zone.”
In one video uploaded to social media, a DPS officer could be seen threatening to arrest the group unless they “comply.”
🚨BREAKING🚨People demonstrating at the Alamo to end abortion were ARRESTED for being outside the designated “FREE SPEECH ZONE”. Why does the Alamo have “free speech zones” when the Alamo is described as a historically public space?
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“All right, you’ve got five minutes to comply to the rules,” the officer said. “If you choose not to, you’ll be asked to leave. If you don’t leave, you’ll be arrested for criminal trespass. Do you understand? I’ll take that as you understand. I’ll see you in five minutes, 9:52.”
Texas attorney CJ Grisham of Texas Gun Rights is representing the protesters.
“When we told them that we have a First Amendment right in a traditional public forum like a sidewalk, they ordered them to leave and gave them a trespass warning if they didn’t,” he told The Christian Post.
When the officer returned, four protesters were arrested for criminal trespass based on what Grisham termed “unconstitutional and unlawful orders.”
Grisham took issue with the orders because the officers were “enforcing rules propagated by the Alamo Trust, the private organization that manages the Alamo property on behalf of the state of Texas.”
“There was no ordinance,” he told the newspaper. “They were only enforcing rules.”
According to the San Antonio Express-News, the Alamo’s official site rules “limit demonstrations to a designated free speech zone.”
“The area is marked by a large star engraved with a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin: ‘Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech,’” the paper reported.
To the activists’ credit, they tried standing in the “freedom circle,” as it’s called, but they could barely fit inside it:
Grisham told The Christian Post that his “next step” is to “get the charges dismissed or fight them in court.” Either way, he intends to eventually sue.
“The big cities are run by anti-Christian leftists and the police do their bidding,” he said. “The police will do anything for a paycheck, including following these unconstitutional rules and enforcing them to the point of violence. It’s a sad state of affairs how far our law enforcement community has fallen from their oath.”
In the meantime, he sent a letter to Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham asking her to look into this matter.
This latest incident comes a month after a Fort Worth police officer threatened to arrest several evangelists during a public event, as The Christian Post reported. The threats infuriated the Trump administration, which fired back with a formal letter raising concerns about viewpoint discrimination.
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