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Saturday, March 6, 2010
JN-SPAN VIDEO: "Pull Up Your Pants And Set A Good Example For Your Children"
In this video shot by Jordan Neighborhood super citizen Megan Goodmundson and posted on YouTube, a Northside resident testifying in support of Chief Dolan urges some in the anti-Dolan crowd to worry less about police brutality and more about "gang membership" by their own children. He said "pull up your pants and set a good example for your children." I wonder who he could be talking to, exactly?
Oh, wait. No, I have a fairly good idea who he might be talking to, exactly.
In the foreground, Tom Cleland can be seen making a hand gesture. This gesture is used at meetings of the Fifth Congressional District Greens, known as "5CD Greens." It sort of, um, magnifies good energy and dissipates bad energy? Something like that.
Don't knock it until you try it. Funny, I didn't see Cleland use that gesture when one of the anti-Dolan crowd got up and called the city council members "suffering sycophants."
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This man is my hero for the day.
He beats the 'pants on the ground' dude.
Love him.
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