"Arrested for obstructing a roadway"
Sees that it is plainly a sidewalk
"Failure to obey a lawful command"
Sees her completely cooperative
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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.
“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
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.
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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.
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Welcome to Trump's Amerikkka
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.
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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
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!
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Flashback to people getting arrested in the red square for holding a white piece of paper
Nazis like to make examples of people
Reporting Team Watches Women Kidnapped In Broad Daylight, Openly Wonders why Nobody Trusts Journalists
This is a really stupid take. The reporters had nothing to do with the arrest.
They stopped her there (obstruction of the road, the given reason). They were the reason her voice was heard in that second and not later, and lead to the arrest (the real reason).
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If this had happened in Venezuela in last couple of days the media would be loosing it's shit. The image of that arrest would be immortalized and treated like the Saigon pistol execution.
Immediately following the attack, bombing and kidnapping of Maduro, journalists were rounded up around the country.
Our media isn't making a stink about it because they are complicit in the manufacturing of a narrative here and you can't have people in Venezuela contradicting that narrative.
Fuck you Yahoo
I'm not selling you my soul for a video.
Fuck every US tech company while you're at it
Once this is over, and one day it will, we can't forget this, we can't forget what IS tech companies did under trump
Which, I'm sure, means that people will forget in about 5 minutes and then they return to the cool US napy tech
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What a shithole country.
🎵 In the laaaand of the unfree... And the home of the depraved.🎵
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“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%20sheet#dictionary-entry-1
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How Russia-esque
Getting REAL close to my home fascist pig fucks. I am very please that my State is both concealed and open carry. This shit WILL NOT STOP until they start getting pushed back, HARD. I have been hearing chatter in the streets in regards to 'while you are in the streets kidnapping us, who is watching your house'?
Fight back soon?
The only way we're gonna fight back is when the government takes away something like Netflix or McDonald's.
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WW3 will have USA, Russia, China fighting on the same side.
Mark My Words
And they are fighting who exactly? World wars became world wars because the world's superpowers were fighting each other.
I really don't think this is correct. The US and China are at odds geopolitically, they have conflicting interests. Why would they join forces?
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Just like putin’s ruzzia
This is what the 2nd amendment is for
The thought police strike again.
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