03-14-2004, 05:41 PM
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Brownie leader: "Breasts are not criminal"
(submitted by gekkogecko)
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - A demonstration
billed as a topless march to protest anti-nudity laws
has drawn in thousands of curious spectators but only
a handful of marchers.
Organisers had expected 1,000 topless women to march
down Main Street in Daytona Beach and voice their
outrage over the arrest of women who bare their
breasts during spring break events. Local officials
say hundreds of women are carted off to jail each year
for exposing their breasts on the beach, in bars and
on the streets.
But after a federal judge refused to stop police from
arresting female protesters who doffed their tops,
only about 50 women made the march.
And only one, organiser Liz Book, took off her shirt.
Book was immediately arrested and taken to jail,
though a bare-chested man who marched was unmolested.
"I don't ever want to see another woman arrested
because someone showed her breasts," said Book, a
42-year-old Brownie troop leader. "Our breasts are not
criminal."
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