shock to outrage to someone proclaiming how angry they were. i mean, i was just crying and didn t really understand the whole thing myself. and sunday morning we woke up and to our horror we found westboro issued their press release, talking about how god was laughing from heaven and things like that. so of course i was angry and upset, and then i thought, okay, i m going to protect our town and we re going to protect our community. so we did everything possible in order to make that happen. and i think we re going to be able to successfully complete our mission in the next few days. you have something called angel action. what is that? well, it s based off of matthew shepherd s funeral who was killed in 1998. his best friend had a group of people with eight to ten-foot angel wings worn on their bodies. people were protesting his funeral so they surrounded them in a nonviolent protest and surrounded them because strength is in their silence.
heard you heard emotions from shock to outrage to someone proclaiming how angry they were. i mean, i was just crying and didn t really understand the whole thing myself. and sunday morning we woke up and to our horror we found westboro issued their press release, talking about how god was laughing from heaven and things like that. so of course i was angry and upset, and then i thought, okay, i m going to protect our town and we re going to protect our community. so we did everything possible in order to make that happen. and i think we re going to be able to successfully complete our mission in the next few days. you have something called angel action. what is that? well, it s based off of matthew shepherd s funeral who was killed in 1998. his best friend had a group of people with eight to ten-foot angel wings worn on their bodies. people were protesting his funeral so they surrounded them in a nonviolent protest and surrounded them because strength is in their silence. so that
church the arizona lem slate ture quickly passed legislation making it a misdemeanor to protest within 300 feet of the funeral. the governor signed the bill moments ago and the community isn t standing idly by either. angel action for the funeral. i spoke with kristen about the plan. what made you want to do this? you actually knew two of the victims. yes, sir. i knew gabe zimmerman, who was 30 years old. he was an aide for congressman giffords, an amazing, beautiful, human being, an empathetic guy, and i also knew mr. stoddard, who died while he was shielding his wife from bullets. obviously on saturday everyone was just really shocked and dismayed. we had a lot of funerals organized kind of renegade style that night and everyone, you
lead on, brooke. i happen to believe that arizona can lead the way for the country many different areas, and certainly when we a tragedy has struck our state, the way that we react to, the way we respond, how we move forward i think can have a positive effect on the entire country. this is something that has personally impacted me, personally impacted really everybody in the state of arizona. and what it does is you learn, i think, what we ought to learn, is to value each other more and value those relationships more even when we don t always agree. this i think is a lesson that you don t always get that second chance to repair relationships and mend fences. reporter: and finally, brooke, he said personally he vows to make this in the legislature a conflict in the future of ideas, not a conflict of people, brooke. you mentioned the angel
i m not sure that will pass constitutional have you heard they re coming? we ve heard they re coming, yes. i agree. we need to let these people grieve in dignity and have orderly funeral processions and we ll work to make sure that happens and do everything we can together to make that happen i think. we can get the people together to do something like that to help out, that s something we can all do. it s not just political leaders voicing outrage about the protest plans. some tucson citizens are planning what they call angel action. they re using bed sheets to make angel wings and they re planning to use these wings to shield mourners from the protest. tucson community activist, kristin, is part of the angel action group and joins us again from tucson. if you confront or come up against these people, and i have in various stories i ve covered, they re quite aggressive, they re quite loud and in many ways they re quite obscene. i m wondering how you would