© Billy Talen / YouTubeThe leaders of the group of singers-acting Church Stop Hoping are accused of threats and the organization of riots for the action arranged in the New York Bank.
About a month ago, the singing and dancing adherents of the “Stop Hoping Church” in the costumes of gold toads entered the Manhattan branch of LpMorgan Chase Bank and distributed leaflets about the dangers that LPMORGAN Chase to employees and customers causes the environment.
Soon, the head of the group Billy Talen, nicknamed the preacher Billy and the musical director of the Church of Stop-Hoping, Niemayu Lackett, was arrested by the police. He was charged with organizing unrest, threats, illegal meeting and violation of public order.
District Prosecutor Manhattan requires a prison term for Talen and Lackett. The lawyer insists that the actions of his clients did not go beyond the permissible limits of expressions of a political position, the freedom of which guarantees the first amendment to the US Constitution.
On the Internet, the collection of signatures is opened under the appeal in support of the arrested corporateants, the document will be submitted in a court appointed on December 9. So far, on the Petition.org website, more than 11,300 people signed it, it is necessary to collect about 8,700 signatures.