An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall
Saturday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to
remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.
Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at
the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described
as "graphic anti-war images." Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the
Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, said his shirt had the death tolls of
American military personnel and Iraqis -- 4,000 and 1 million -- and
the words "Dead" and "Enough." The shirt also has three blotches
resembling blood splatters.
Police said in a release Saturday night that Zirkel was handing out
anti-war pamphlets to mallgoers and that mall security told him to
stop and turn his shirt inside out. Zirkel refused to turn his shirt
inside out and wouldn't leave, police said. Security placed him on
"civilian arrest" and called police. When police arrived, Zirkel
passively resisted attempts to bring him to a police car, the release
said.
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