Man Arrested For Brandishing Gun At Alabama Immigration Protest

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Police say a man is accused of brandishing a gun at an Alabama immigration protest, where terrified demonstrators dropped to the ground in a park when people started shouting “Gun!”

Huntsville police Lt. Michael Johnson says 34-year-old Shane Ryan Sealy was arrested at Saturday’s rally in Huntsville. He’s charged with menacing and reckless endangerment.

Ava Caldwell, an organizer of the “Families Belong Together” rally, says people hit the ground. No injuries were reported.

Huntsville City Schools spokesperson Keith Ward tells WHNT-TV that Sealy taught at Huntsville’s Grissom High School for a brief time in 2016 but hasn’t worked for the school system in the past couple of years.

Cellphone video posted by WAFF-TV shows police responding to the incident.

Jail records do not list an attorney for Sealy.

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  1. At least he didn’t chase any protesters out of a restaurant! Right wingers are so civil.

  2. He’s white…so no Cop “feared for his life” and the guy was put in cuffs alive.

  3. Huntsville City Schools spokesperson Keith Ward tells WHNT-TV that Sealy taught at Huntsville’s Grissom High School for a brief time in 2016 but hasn’t worked for the school system in the past couple of years.

    I realize that “a couple” can be a reference to the number 2, but a school years runs from Aug-May. So how many weeks did he teach before he was booted?

  4. Yeah the protesters needed to worry but the cop didn’t need to worry about his life, he didn’t care about the protesters, and he didn’t need to teach the white guy a lesson of who was in charge.

  5. Article carefully avoids saying whether he was one of the demonstrators or had come out to confront them, and that’s on purpose. Methbilly Nation is now busy filling Faux News KKKomment boards with “another violent liberal…”

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