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Legendary activist says there's a major problem with policing in post-9/11 America
Reverend Billy — real name William Talen — has lead the radical activist group, The Church of Stop Shopping, with his wife Savitri Durkee for the last fifteen years.
In that time, the two have been arrested more than fifty times during their protests.
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Both maintain they aren’t trying to get arrested — it’s simply a function of America’s relationship with the police in the post-9/11 world.
"The supermalls and chain stores have been militarized. You don’t have to do anything for a cop to come running towards you.
It’s a military approach," Talen recently told Business Insider. "If you say Starbucks too loud in a Starbucks, you will get kicked out. The level of intimidation that people feel for any kind of behavior outside the norm is extreme.
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Talen, Durkee, and the group's behavior does admittedly fall outside the norm. The Church of Stop Shopping frequently stages protests insi