Jeana Renea Gamble was arrested for wearing an inflatable penis costume at a No Kings anti-trans protest. (Bluesky/@thekoolaidmom.bsky.social)
A 61-year-old woman has been arrested for wearing an inflatable penis costume during a No Kings anti-Trump protest over the weekend.
Following her refusal to remove her penis costume at a protest in Fairhope, Alabama, on Saturday (18 October), Jeana Renea Gamble faces misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Protesters held signs that read “No Kings” and “No D**ktators”. Counter-protestors, who have claimed the No Kings protesters were “disrespectful to the police” held signs that read “Jesus: The Only Real King” and waved Trump flags.
In one photo, Gamble holds a “No D**ktators” sign while holding up the flag of the United States.
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Fairhope Police wrote on Facebook that offers were dispatched “following complaints regarding traffic hazards in the area”.
“Upon arrival, an officer observed an individual in a phallic costume near the Baldwin Square Shopping Center. The officer approached the woman and requested that she remove the costume, which is deemed obscene in a public setting; however, she refused to comply,” the post stated, noting that Gamble was then arrested.https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ffairhopepolice%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02D4GXJADRPEpy3io8iRde9tTrmpLQc6mRaikgiPNwaSHFX8s7JVUPALvJMKujVQHZl&show_text=true&width=500
A video of the arrest shows Gamble lying on the ground as one onlooker shouts, “Leave her alone, she’s not doing anything”.
“She was walking away,” others say to the officers, while another says, “why don’t you arrest us all”.
“I’m not going to have somebody out here dressed like this,” one of the three officers respond.
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Fairhope City Council president Jack Burrell justified the arrest, telling AL.com that Gamble’s costume didn’t meet Fairhope’s “community standards”.
Organiser of the protest, Indivisible of Baldwin County, described the “violent” arrest in a statement as “indefensible, morally and legally.”
The statement added: “Public officials must take seriously their duty to uphold the First Amendment. Their complete failure to do so in this situation runs against the free expression of values that created the City of Fairhope and against the liberty guarantees enshrined in Alabama law and the United States Constitution.”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FIndivisibleBaldwinCounty%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0a5VTqCccySpfY6zv3WZh2ihaxHgoWkY56Qib1APkzQPWkVfhtrBdP9SLXMqma5idl&show_text=true&width=500
The anti-Trump group No Kings describes itself as a “peaceful movement”. Its website states that the protests take place “because this country does not belong to kings, dictators, or tyrants. It belongs to We the People — the people who care, who show up, and who fight for dignity, a life we can afford, and real opportunity. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.”
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