Watch the clip. Police comes right up to her and arrests her on camera.
Thankfully it seems like no one said this yet, so just inb4:
She was not stupid, nor useless or played into their hand. Be inspired and take example. Being arrested for a little bit is not that big of a price to pay for resisting tyranny.
More importantly, without blindly believing it will automatically come true, at least put the scenario where you win into your heads. Going to prison for what’s right can actually be liberating, if you think about it. And people can be taken out of prison too, together with all those that were imprisoned for getting or giving an abortion, those that immigrated “illegally” but spent decades contributing to the US’s society and economy, those that only had a bunch of weed on them, etc. Maybe even the whole “for-profit prison” concept may finally come to an end. Imagine that!
She will just disappear.
Not yet. They’ll hold her for a day or two and release her without charges.
They released her within a few hours
clip on INVIDIOUS
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
Too bad she didn’t have a CCW, otherwise maybe she could have shot her kidnappers.
If you ain’t protesting armed expect this. I doubt police want to commit suicide by protester.
I doubt anyone wants to die just for a protest.
Weak shit. Pigs back down when protesters are armed.
I doubt anyone wants to live at the otherside of a lack of protest
tankman.jpg would like a word
No risk, no reward. Good luck.
You’re right, police officers don’t want to die from protestors. That’s why they wear body armor and have armored vehicles, and the National Guard gets deployed if those aren’t enough.
If you pull a gun on a police officer while they’re arresting someone, it’s very likely that you and everyone behind you in the line of fire are going to get shot, repeatedly.
I guess there’s no reason for anyone to protest then. They’ll ignore you or kill you. Why bother with performative bullshit that’ll bear nothing?
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Nazis like to make examples of people
I remember watching a video like this but it was on Reddit and it was top post. It was also happening in Moscow, not the USA.
“The country of freedom” accuses the other country of their censorship in media, but then it starts doing the same things.
Freedom my ass I say
The thought police strike again.
You can’t trust anyone. Be extra careful about what you tell people as in this wretched police state you can never be sure if you could suddenly be arrested anything that you say.
“You can beat the wrap, but you can’t beat the ride”
Or possibly losing your job, healthcare insurance, going bankrupt, etc.
Presuming it was autocorrect, but it should be RAP, record of arrests & prosecutions.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rap sheet#dictionary-entry-1
I don’t see anywhere on there that gives the etymology as an abbreviation? Etymonline gives the following:
rap(n.)
early 14c., rappe, “a quick, light blow; a resounding stroke,” […] native or borrowed from a Scandinavian source
Slang meaning “a rebuke, the blame, responsibility” is from 1777; specific meaning “criminal indictment” (as in rap sheet, 1960) is from 1903
Thanks for the link.
Based on usage and spelling in my hometown of NYC, it’s always been RAP, as shown in the second example (presuming journalists of yesteryear knew how to spell).
The second example doesn’t give an abbreviation as the origin of the link to rap sheet, is what I was saying; records, arrests, and prosecutions to mean RAP instead of rap sounds like a backronym.
Soon enough, those threats aren’t going to be relevant.
Yeah, that’s the real threat. An arrest record will absolutely jack up future background checks on future employment. Which you’re going to encounter since your current employer will drop you for being a no-show. That will leave you without health insurance, threatening your savings until you can get employed again. Which will be very hard to overcome due to high unemployment (in some markets) and that arrest record.
The fact that there’s a through-line from “no social safety net” all the way to “compliant populace” is worrying to say the least.
Fight back soon?
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What do you think this lady was doing? What exactly do you suggest people do?
Be armed and not let police haul fellow protesters off. These half measures are nothing but performative garbage.
You’re telling me that you would personally get into a shootout with law enforcement if they tried to arrest a fellow protester?
It’s easy to talk big from behind a keyboard.
At a certain point we’ll have to.
The trolls around here never prop themselves up as an example, especially when suggesting escalation or even violence. They’re baiting the gullible and distracting everyone else from working on a better answer.
Not at all what I was getting at but you’ve proven that you aren’t united enough to stand against this tyranny and are still okay with hanging each other out to dry as long as you get to go home safe and sound. Agree with them or not but the Bundy standoff is a prime modern example of armed civilians uniting and running off law enforcement. Cowards are just speed bumps on the road to fascism. Live free or die trying.
By “the Bundy standoff,” I assume you mean the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by Ammon Bundy and his followers? The event that law enforcement took an extremely hands-off approach to because everyone involved was white, and still ended up with one of the participants dead?
If the people who took part in that occupation had been anything other than rich, white, and strongly religious, they would have had tanks rolling in to clear them out.
If you’re talking about the other Bundy standoff, where Ammon’s father Cliven decided he didn’t want to pay to graze his cattle on public lands, lost every court case, and prevented the government from seizing his cattle by showing up with an armed militia… I don’t think a rich white sovereign citizen faces the same level of consequences from their actions as everyone else does.
Good slaves like yourself know your place.
Walking around unarmed while being brown. I suggest people don’t do that.
“Arrested for obstructing a roadway”
Sees that it is plainly a sidewalk
“Failure to obey a lawful command”
Sees her completely cooperative
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as soon as I finished an interview speaking on Venezuela, I was arrested – the only person arrested out of 200 people,” she told the outlet.
Imagine that. 200 protesters, but she was the only one obstructing a roadway. That must have been crazy. 199 protesters safely protesting and this one crazy lady out in the road. /s
Welcome to Trump’s Amerikkka
Everyone knows the crime is Criticizing Dear Leader, but they don’t have the laws in place for that yet so they’re improvising.
“You got an uphill battle here, counselor. She did look at him crossways.”
Meanwhile, dumbass Trump in the corner, seething and drooling with rage. “I didn’t get muh peace prize…” and other mumblings that have nothing to do with the case.
The article implies the officers identified her from blocking the roadway prior to the interview along with all the other protesters.
The interview happened after.
But kinda telling of the 200 people they only identified and arrested her.
Note that they apparently didn’t arrest her when they saw her doing it.
They waited until when she was in front of a news cameras again because they wanted to make an example out of her.
Should make the defence easy though.
Hopefully she can counter sue for first amendment violations.
If you read the article, the violation occurred earlier. They just identified her and arrested her then.
It’s all bullshit obviously, but I doubt the case will be cut and dry if they decide to pursue.
They probably have video footage or her uncovered face in the roadway after being instructed to move. Or she may have been doing something to stand out, from others, like yelling, getting close to officers, or organizing.
Even when protesting against a better government, remember to cover your face, especially if you plan to defy officer orders or do something more… extreme.
I got the impression she was a leader. It they will arrest you for being in the road, mask up!
The protest she was being interviewed about had previously been marching through the street…
Her actual ‘crime’ was organizing the protest.
The protest which was, as far as I can tell, entirely peaceful.
So… yeah.
That’s effectively a crime now.
… do people see why some of us have been calling for more uh, … effective means of resistance, for some time now?
They can and will ‘just arrest everyone’.
They’ll bankrupt the country doing it.
The movement needs to go through this more naive phase and reflect on the results so that it can mature and adjust strategies. It’s easy to learn about history, see what finally worked in the past, and think that we should just ‘skip to the end,’ but that’s not how large groups of people operate. You can expect an individual to learn from history and do what’s most effective, but groups must always go through the entire process because the group infrastructure has to be built brick by brick.
… So you’re saying we’re just doomed as a species to eternal tragicomedy?
First as tragedy, n++ times as farce?
I… can’t really realistically argue against that, but goddamnit is that depressing.
I only said we have to go through the process, but there’s no reason we can’t speed it up or prepare better for the consequences. I think the role of those who learn from history is to work behind the scenes to soften the blows we know are coming to those who learn the hard way, and ease the transition from one phase to the next.
In more concrete terms, maintain solidarity even with people you think are making a mistake, and prepare for the moment they are ready to do more.
Climate change is irrevesible and will ultimately destabilize the geopolitical situation to the point it will directly or indirectly kill billions of people this century… unless our species can demonstrate a hitherto unseen level of international cooperation and coordination.
Instead, the world’s dominant hegemon twice elected a belligerent, incompetent, fascist, rapist pedophile warmonger.
… We don’t have the time to go through the process. By the time people are ready to do more, it won’t matter, nothing they do at that point will be able to outrun the inertia of the systemic collapse that’s now baked into the proverbial cake.
We are two decades too late to try to do an anti-fascist, counterbalance version of accelerationism.
The magnitude of the tragicomedy simply intensifies as time progresses.
Exactly the video I thought of. But “soon”?! It literally already happened in OPs video!
Not yet. In the Russian video, the second woman is being arrested for supporting the military operation
How Russia-esque
She was obstructing stupidity. Now they can be as stupid as they want.
