<div dir="ltr"><div>Here's some shaky video footage of the library event itself back in May, and some more recent footage of the Kansas City librarians speaking out about what happened. Librarian Steve Woolfolk, who had organized this library program, and a patron were arrested by off-duty police officers after the patron asked a question of the event speaker, former Bush administration official, Dennis Ross. The librarian and the patron are now facing charges of resisting arrest. Both the librarian and the patron were manhandled by the officers and Woolfolk suffered a knee injury. This is truly horrible.</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article105294071.html">http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article105294071.html</a><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Lorene Forman</div><div>Jefferson County Library Youth Services Specialist</div><div>541-475-3351, ext 2</div><div><br><div style="overflow:hidden;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left;border:medium none"><font color="#38761d" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a title="view quote" href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/willrogers386200.html" target="_blank"></a></font>“Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.”
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Rawles, Carolyn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Carolyn.Rawles@corvallisoregon.gov" target="_blank">Carolyn.Rawles@corvallisoregon.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:alacoun-request@lists.ala.org" target="_blank">alacoun-request@lists.ala.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:alacoun-request@lists.ala.org" target="_blank">alacoun-request@lists.<wbr>ala.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Aaron W. Dobbs<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 29, 2016 7:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ALA Council List <<a href="mailto:alacoun@lists.ala.org" target="_blank">alacoun@lists.ala.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [alacoun] Library worker arrested in library after defending patron's free speech<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Library Worker Heroically Defends Patron’s Free Speech, Is Brutally Arrested in Library Where He Works<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“For someone to be assaulted and then arrested for asking a question, in a public library of all places, is abhorrent. The library should be a place where people of all points of view can feel safe and welcome,” Steve Woolfolk, director
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<p class="MsoNormal">“I have spent the last 10 years of my life trying to cultivate that atmosphere through public programming at the library. Library staff should be the final arbiters of what constitutes reasonable discourse at a public event held inside
a public library,” Woolfolk explained to the Dissent NewsWire. Yet, when he tried to intervene on the questioner’s behalf, Woolfolk found himself arrested at an event he helped plan.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Woolfolk stands charged with interfering with the arrest of Rothe-Kushel. Rothe-Kushel, like Woolfolk feared, was charged with trespassing and resisting arrest. “Nobody, be it an individual or an agent of the state, should be able to take
it upon themselves to silence a point of view simply because they disagree,” Woolfolk informed the Dissent NewsWire. Yet, it would appear that not only is that exactly what happened, but a librarian who tried to make sure that a public library remained a public
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