Bump: We wrote this at 9:20 Tuesday night, but are bumping it to today since so many of you have written us about it and news keeps developing.

Update Here are the e-mail addresses for the City Managers of Guilderland, NY (the town where the mall is). Tell them what you think.

runionk@townofguilderland.org
guild200@nycap.rr.com

(email addresses courtesy of Mike in the comments section)

Update: Instapundit has lots more, including why he doesn't think there's a first amendment violation here--and tips on how to contact the mall tand stores in it o express your opinions about this.

If we didn't read it on CNN's website, we wouldn't believe it. A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall.

According to the criminal complaint filed Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Give Peace A Chance" that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, New York, near Albany.

"I was in the food court with my son when I was confronted by two security guards and ordered to either take off the T-shirt or leave the mall," said Downs.

When Downs refused the security officers' orders, police from the town of Guilderland were called and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs, charged with trespassing "in that he knowingly enter(ed) or remain(ed) unlawfully upon premises," the complaint read.

Downs said police tried to convince him he was wrong in his actions by refusing to remove the T-shirt because the mall "was like a private house and that I was acting poorly.

"I told them the analogy was not good and I was then hauled off to night court where I was arraigned after pleading not guilty and released on my own recognizance," Downs told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Kevin at Getting In the Game has more.