Saint Louis, MO citizen arrested for promoting petition signature drive with leaflets
Gustavo Rendon is angry that City Hall is helping developer Paul McKee’s plan to rebuild 2 square miles of north St. Louis, and scared that he will lose his home. He set out Sunday to put leaflets on windshields in his neighborhood, urging his neighbors to fight the project. And then he was arrested. Two police officers handcuffed Rendon in front of his children and put him in jail for about nine hours on suspicion of “affixing an advertisement on public or private property.”