Moral Monday CT: A great description of the police entering Christ Church without an invitation in pursuit of organizers this afternoon. Many thanks to Bishop John Selders, Pamela Moore Selders, and Cornell Lewis for their leadership, and Osagyefo Sekou for his support of today's action.
In a bizarre turn of events, nearly a dozen police officers stormed Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, CT after the first Moral Monday CT event--which included a die-in at City Hall and an unpermitted march in downtown. As we marched back to the church, officers blocked the street in front of the church, came in and demanded to speak to me. Bishop John Selders--leader of Moral Mondays CT and my elder brother--intervened. The Vicar of the church stood next to me and said, "If you take him you have to take me." As police attempted to isolate Bishop Selders clergy gathered around him. The Assistant Chief of Police of Hartford was dispatched. As the Dean of the Catherdal and Vicar along with Bishop Selders and Pamela Moore Selders met with the Assistant Chief, I lead a crowd of about 50 folks gathered in the hall in freedom songs. Linda E Kelly andGretchen Honnold of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Lizzy Jean of Deep Abiding Love Project were on hand as support saw it all. We are all stunned by the fact that they came into a church and at the fact that I seemed to be targeted. But to be sure the Hartford Police know now, they have not authority in the House of God! It is just not a slogan: Ferguson is Everywhere.
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