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[–] 47 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

Is verbal harassment of police and such even a thing? What if he did shout 'fucking pigs' or whatever while he was videoing? To me that would change nothing - but would it?

provide evidence either way, but if this just is their typical Baghdad Bob propaganda, I

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  • They say he was arrested for the "assault," but yep, they intentionally phrased it to conflate "verbal harassment" with actual (if true) criminal conduct. It's a meaningless phrase.

    If anything, they put it there because to the right wing base, it justifies police violence or could support disorderly conduct, or one of the other catch-all pretextual "crimes" used when police want to arrest someone for no real reason.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    These people are arguing in the court of public opinion. The guy could be 100% in the clear legally and it wouldn't matter if public opinion is against him. The governlent has been doing tons of unconstitutional/illegal things, but only reversed the ones with widespread negative public sentiment

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Verbal harassment isn't a thing. You can legally tell a cop to fuck off while flipping them off. The only kind of speech that isn't allowed is "fighting words" or calls to violence.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To a cop, hearing "fuck off" and being flipped off is fighting words.

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