The Riverdale Press and other news are reporting via Twitter that 25 people, including five pastors, were arrested for protesting outside of the Bronx’s Morris High School, where Mayor Bloomberg is about to give his annual State of the City address. The demonstrators were protesting the DOE’s policy banning churches from worshiping inside public school buildings. Last week, seven people, including Bronx Councilman Fernando Cabrera, were arrested for protesting in front of the city’s law department.
Update: It now appears that more than 40 people were arrested for attempting to bring the protest across the street to entrance to Morris High School. Cabrera was not among them. But Bronx Pastor Dimas Salaberrios and several members of his church, Infinity NY, were among those arrested.
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