Watch the clip. Police comes right up to her and arrests her on camera.
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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.”
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“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.
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!
Welcome to Trump’s Amerikkka
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.
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.
The protest she was being interviewed about had previously been marching through the street…
Land of the Free
Terms and conditions apply.
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy!
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Nazis like to make examples of people
Flashback to people getting arrested in the red square for holding a white piece of paper
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
What a shithole country.
🎵 In the laaaand of the unfree… And the home of the depraved.🎵
Land of the fee, and the home of the slave.
🎶Ain’t that America? Home of the fee, baby! 🎶
Good American slaves make a little noise, get gassed and go home. Good for nothing.
You’re just a flight away! Come and save us! Show us how good for something you are.
You have a second amendment right, use it to empower yourself. I have my own backyard and currently it’s not being fucked with.
You have the right to self-autonomy, use it to save the world.
Or will you just watch Hitler? You’d rather watch Hitler than take one flight and save Earth?
The final boss of shithole countries
Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon summed it up so well in Preacher
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
No need to wait, we can start right now.
One thing we can all do is switch from Microsoft Office (if you or someone you know is using that) to Libreoffice. Especially important that everyone cancels their Office 365 subscriptions. I singled this out because this is likely the way most people are directly funding big tech. Office 365 funds OpenAI which donated $25 million to Trump.
Also of course cancel your Copilot and ChatGPT subscriptions too.
In addition Reddit users should switch to Lemmy or Piefed.
Hmmm, I wonder who gives the tech company low-interest loans and much more? This tech bubble would not be possible without the support of international banking. Too big to fail, and so on.
Don’t stop at tech or the USA, that won’t accomplish anything. International banking cartel will buy the drop at bargain prices, AND give loans for the rebuild. I wonder who controls USA money? Oh, the FED. I wonder who these guys in the FED are? Oh look, those same banks.
They are not even hiding it
Reform or revolution.
-Rosa Luxemburg
You can try this
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
“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.
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.
Soon enough, those threats aren’t going to be relevant.
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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I don’t understand. ELI5?
He suggests the journalists should protect the girl from the police, get shot and die in order for him to trust journalists.
Yes, this is my stance. Anyone who would watch this happen and not intervene is a coward. If anyone reading this is tempted to interpret these words as sarcasm, you are misinterpreting me.
edit* The number of cowards downvoting this post is why I don’t expect to survive this regime. Piss off.
Bad take.
If the journalists had intervened, the cops would have just arrested them and confiscated/deleted the interview.
You wrote horribly stupid wrong
A little sus that the reporter and camera operator weren’t arrested for “blocking a road” even though they were standing in the same place.
She was arrested for blocking roadways earlier during a march she organized.
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!
How Russia-esque
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.
Land of the free1, home of the brave
- Terms and conditions apply
*Land of the Thief, home of the Slave
–Brother Ali
Yep, that came to mind, but I wanted to keep the original phrasing.
Land of the free
Whoever told you that is your enemy
That whole ass record goes exactly as hard today as it did on release.
(Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut, shit rips)
I think “brave” also needs a footnote.
Yeah, probably something along the lines of “only if you agree with someone’s ideology”; the same “Terms and conditions apply” also works.
Fight back soon?
The only way we’re gonna fight back is when the government takes away something like Netflix or McDonald’s.
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.
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.
At a certain point we’ll have to.
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.
