This Just In: PETA Activist Arrested

Written by PETA

Posted 06-18-2010

33 Comments

One of our top activists has just been arrested for participating in an anti-circus demonstration in Dallas. Her crime? You tell us, Dallas P.D.! No one will even tell us why she was arrested! Watch the action for yourself:

Thanks to Animal Connection of Texas for capturing this on video, and hang in there, Meggan! We'll update you as soon as we know more.

Written by Amy Skylark Elizabeth

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vegan, circus, circuses, demonstration, Arnold Ziffel, Internet Soup, Biz Stone, Lea Michele, Emily Deschanel, environmentalist, arrested, Dallas, Animal Connection of Texas

Recent Comments

Krasimira Buyuklieva commented:

9-11-2010 6:13 AM

Bravo Meggan!! Greetings from Bulgaria!
William Scott commented:

7-8-2010 12:18 PM

About a month ago Meggan protested the circus with us here in Corpus ChristiTexas. She is the sweetest young lady I know. We had a permit to Demo on the busiest street downtown. Aout 20 feet behind her on the Corpus Christi Beach were hundreds of people wearing almost as little as Meggan. Next to us were two radio DJ's I think their show is called "Two fat jerks in the morning" or somthing like thatprotesting our Peta Demo. They were also giving out free hot dogs. They had no permit to demo and they had no food handlers license both of which are required. Although police were there for crowd control and public safety no one was arrested or ticketed. Maybe Dallas should take some lessons from Corpus Christi.
bryan commented:

6-25-2010 5:33 PM

on july 17th ringling i comming to staple center i wanted to know if peta i gonna be there . ?
Pam Davis commented:

6-24-2010 12:07 PM

Yes she was an absolute hero and made us all proud. I too saw the perv DPD officer sneaking peaks at her trying to put her shirt on. We didn't continue the protest after she was arrested as it was over. They waited until it was over as it was planned to arrest her. That I have no doubt. It was totally bogus charges and no I don't think there was a permit but it was a PETA protest so maybe there was? PK Davis ACT
ami (: commented:

6-23-2010 1:15 PM

omg finally somone decent comes along who cares and ws determined. how can she be arrested hen there are people out there who are making millions out of poor suffering animals. i dont know u megan but u sound like a hero keep goin well dun xx
Kalama Halamezad commented:

6-22-2010 4:10 PM

Pam After Meggan was hauled off were the rest of you permitted to continue the protest? What were the charges? If you were in charge of the police and needed to arrest a member of a group safely and peacefully how many officers would you send?
Pam commented:

6-22-2010 3:36 PM

I was there and we were ALL applauding as they hauled her off in the patty wagon. Jeezzz 15 DPD officers to handcuff one small girl? Our Dallas tax dollars at work!! Bogus charges and one friend standing there asked the cop if 'he was ashamed' he mumbled.. We love Meggan and she TOOK ONE FOR THE ANIMALS that is a REAL HERO!!!
Lauren Holt commented:

6-22-2010 12:51 PM

Megan you are a truly beautiful wonderful person. Thankyou so much from all of us in the UK. We love you. xxxx
Fred commented:

6-22-2010 11:46 AM

I have a feeling she was arrested due to being nude in public and that the 36 officers there were that many in case of a riot. This may not be due to it being PETA but just a general riot protection as there have been some bad riots in Dallas in the past. Also I have a feeling she was given her Miranda rights I have been around the DPD enough to know they always give those rights. She would've been charged before she got dressed otherwise she'd had no reason to change. Now is it fair? depends. If you have a permit to protest then there's a bit more clout to the whole situation and she may get off easier for being nude in public. That's one thing we haven't heard here yet was there a permit. That would say a lot right there too because if you didn't have the permit then you are lucky it's just the one case of arrest.
Chloe commented:

6-22-2010 9:26 AM

One of my friends protested Ringling Bros. here in Little Rock a couple of years ago and the LRPD just told her to stop or she was going to jail and she pushed their buttons and kept on protesting and her mother had to bail her out of her cell. I protested last year in Monroe Louisiana. The police or Animal Society never got me but some people told me I was getting on their nerves and needed to shut up. I at least got to protest in the cold for four hours. I never got naked but I gave out fliers buttons and DVDs with video footage. The show was over a man with a Ringling button on his jacket said I needed to go and he didn't want to catch me at another show ever again or my $$ was in jail for sure. I told him they were stupid $$ animal abuses and ran.

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