Massachusetts city convicts pro-lifer for holding sign outside a school

BEN JOHNSON lifesitenews.com A pro-life activist who says he has suffered police harassment – from barricading his signs to being choked and beaten – has been convicted for holding a sign outside a Massachusetts school. Peter D'Attilio of the pro-life group Defenders of Women was convicted on February 12 of disturbing a school, trespassing, and resisting arrest. The two-day jury trial came about because D'Attilio held a pro-life sign in front of a public charter school in the Boston suburb of Brockton on March 21, 2012. According to his account, D'Attilio was led to the school by a female African-American student who took some of his two-inch wide pro-life bookmarks to pass out to her classmates. As he held his sign canvassing the area, a school official, then a police officer asked him to leave. D'Attilio said after he left, the police officer – with whom he had a previous tense encounter – ran across the street, tackled him, and arrested him. The police never returned the videotape inside the camcorder that would have cleared his name, according to D'Attilio. to read more: lifesitenews.com