Reply #19: AP: Boston Store Cease Sale of 'Snitch' Shirts

[Eugene]

Boston Store Cease Sale of 'Snitch' Shirts

Sunday December 4, 2005 6:01 AM

BOSTON (AP) - A clothing store owner agreed Saturday to stop selling
"Stop Snitching" T-shirts amid concerns the message was intimidating
murder witnesses during a surge in violent crime.

Store owner Antonio Ennis, after meeting with Boston Mayor
Thomas Menino and outraged community leaders, said he would stop
selling the shirts in his store and over the Internet.

"It's the right thing to do," Ennis said.

Antonio Ansaldi Clothing has stocked the shirts since 1999 and sold
300 to 400 a month, he said.

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