Crime & Safety
Local Man Arrested While Protesting New Jersey Bear Hunt
Wildlife activist Bill Crain often protests deer hunting with his wife in East Hampton.
Animal rights activist and Montauk resident Bill Crain, who often protests deer hunting in East Hampton, was arrested on Monday in New Jersey, where he was protesting a black bear hunt.
According to The Star Ledger, Crain refused to move from the front of the a Sussex County weigh-in station. Crain later told reporters it was an act of civil disobedience.
A photograph shows Crain had a handmade sign around his neck that read" "Mother Nature is Crying."
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The article quoted him as saying as he was being handcuffed, "The government is acting in immoral fashion (by allowing the hunt) and we have an obligation to disobey."
Crain, who also lives in Manhattan, is a psychology professor at City College of New York. He and his wife Ellen have set out on three-day hunger strikes to protest the start of shotgun season in the Town of East Hampton in recent years.
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The Star Ledger said he was also arrested on the first day of the bear hunt last year and during the first day of the bear hunt in 2005.
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