Watch the clip. Police comes right up to her and arrests her on camera.

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[+] 326 points 10 months ago (16 children)
  • [–] 96 points 10 months ago

    “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

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Should make the defence easy though.

    Hopefully she can counter sue for first amendment violations.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    ... 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 65 points 10 months ago

    Flashback to people getting arrested in the red square for holding a white piece of paper

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  • [–] 127 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Hi, mod here.

    In the future, please avoid sharing links from news aggregators. Sharing from the original source helps community health by providing transparency, and allows others to avoid reposting the same article.

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Thanks for saying that. Yahoo tries to set millions of data harvesting cookies, it's insane. Declining it means no video in this case.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    This is the beauty of private tabs, they can set as many data harvesting cookies as they like, and the cookies are deleted when I close the window

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/private-browsing-use-firefox-without-history

    Private Browsing does not save your browsing information, such as history and cookies

    There's a lot of things private browsing does not do (partly because there's a lot more parts of the stack involved in privacy than just your web browser) but deleting cookies on exit is literally one of the things private browsing specifically does and is directly controlled by the browser

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  • [–] 54 points 10 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 52 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    To paraphrase Brennan Lee Mulligan, paraphrasing Michel Foucault, "Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It's just a promise of violence that's enacted and police are basically an occupying army."

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    How paraphrased are we talking, here? Because I'm pretty sure laws like "Don't murder" and "Don't rape" and the ability to punish people who break those laws aren't just an expression of one socio-economic ethnic group maintaining violent occupation over another.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Except even "don't murder" and "don't rape" isn't equally applied to all citizen. In the US, you got the orange man as the prime example. Here in Canada, you just gotta look at how first nations victims are more often than not left to fend for themselves, while Mounties will ignore them if the case involves any type of effort.

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  • [–] 45 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    USA is cooked, man. It's no longer a free country. Party of no censorship and free speech, yeah right.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    If you aren't a rich white man it was never free. Most of us are just more adjacent to poverty(increase cost of food and housing) and injustice(ice raids in the suburbs) because we're in an economic valley. IMO If/ win the employment number recover the median voter will forget all about this

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  • [+] -22 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Meh. This was the local police. They wanted the group off the road, and the group wouldn't move. I don't really have a problem with this. These protests that block traffic and stuff hurt the wrong people. The guy or girl driving wherever shouldn't be the target. Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, nah. Protests are only effective if they're disruptive

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Yes, but disruptive to who. I am saying this was disruptive to people who have no power to change anything. Go block the access point to a major commercial point of entry or something. That will at least hurt the trucking company because they have to pay the drivers either way.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.

    Economies utilize roads. Average Joe driving to work is engaging in commerce and/or production.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It appeared to me that she was on the sidewalk?? How you gonna say she was blocking the road when she’s on the sidewalk? Isn’t that where people are supposed to be?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    What it said was that she was leading the protest, and both her and others had refused to leave the road when ordered. Likely this was by one or two cops. When they had to call more out, they arrested the people who had refused the order. At that point she was on the sidewalk, but they knew who she was.

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  • [–] 128 points 10 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 49 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Bill Hicks had a joke that ended with, "You are free to do as we tell you."

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    Nazis like to make examples of people

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    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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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Land of the free^1^, home of the brave

    1. Terms and conditions apply
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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    “You can beat the wrap, but you can’t beat the ride”

    Or possibly losing your job, healthcare insurance, going bankrupt, etc.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago*

    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.

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    [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    The thought police strike again.

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago

    How Russia-esque

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    What do you think this lady was doing? What exactly do you suggest people do?

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  • [+] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [+] -5 points 10 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    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.

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    [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    She was obstructing stupidity. Now they can be as stupid as they want.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Good ol’ GRPD. They made a whole show on HBO Max to try to improve their image, and then they turn around and do shit like this.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    What does Marx think of wrongful kidnappings by the police?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    If this is NOT another reason why you should study socialist/communist theory, I don't know what is. https://redsails.org/

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago*

    Just like putin’s ruzzia

    This is what the 2nd amendment is for

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    America today: “oh no someone should stop this!”

    Also America today: “ooooh new iPhone!”

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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Reporting Team Watches Women Kidnapped In Broad Daylight, Openly Wonders why Nobody Trusts Journalists

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    He suggests the journalists should protect the girl from the police, get shot and die in order for him to trust journalists.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    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.

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