BOUNTIFUL - When Gregg Revell packed his bags for a trip to Pennsylvania last April, he had no idea how far he'd be traveling.
Before the week was out, the 57-year-old suburban real estate agent and grandfather would be arrested, thrown into one of the country's most notorious jails, strip searched and inoculated against his will.
Well now he knows how it is for many blacks. I bet he didn't like it. And because they are poor no one posts bail for them.
The soft-spoken Utah native would be on his way to becoming a poster child for the National Rifle Association in a $3 million lawsuit.
How come the NRA doesn't defend blacks who are falsely arrested for carrying a weapon for which they have a permit?
During a nearly five-day stay in a Newark, N.J., jail, he would meet a terrifying side of America that most Utahns see only on television and briefly would become a jailhouse mentor to drug dealers and violent criminals.
Stop, you have me close to tears. I can't take much more!!!
It started as a trip to pick up a BMW in Allentown, Pa., for a relaxing road trip back to Utah.
"I fix them up and sell them," Revell says. "Sometimes I make a profit. It's something I do for fun."
Revell, who has a Utah concealed weapon permit, usually takes a handgun with him for protection on his car trips.
He's soft spoken.......he's taking a cross country drive....what does he need a gun for? I have done similar trips numerous times. Not once have I needed a gun.
You really don't get how you all sound, do you? You would think you lived in the Congo. |
