Funeral Protest

AP News - 537 days ago
Funeral Protest
Shirley Phelps-Roper, right, hugs her niece Jael Phelps after an agreement was reached with a Nebraska prosecutor Monday Aug. 23, 2010 in Papillion Neb. Phelps-Roper agreed Monday to drop federal lawsuits against Nebraska authorities in exchange for a Nebraska prosecutor dismissing charges against her stemming from her 2007 protest outside a soldier's funeral. Prosecutors accused Phelps-Roper of allowing her 10-year-old son to stand on an American flag during a protest outside the funeral of a National Guardsman in Bellevue, an Omaha suburb. Authorities say she also wore a flag as a skirt that dragged on the ground. (AP Photo/James R. Burnett, Pool)