‹ BackHN Continuity

Thread

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

218 points · 261 comments · latexr

  1. p_j_w · · focus · HN ↗
    >The cop said, “You’re under arrest,” grabbed her arms, and pulled her out of the room. “I can do this all night. I get paid by the hour,” the cop added.

    Two sentences showing precisely why no one can trust the police. Not only are they completely unaccountable, but they will trample your first amendment rights and do so with smug amusement in full public view. These are the kinds of people we're supposed to be happy to give massive surveillance power to?

    1. Manuel_D · · focus · HN ↗

      [dead]

      1. LazyMans · · focus · HN ↗
        Exactly. We have an individual that started doing this constantly in our local neighborhood meetings. It makes the entire meeting so dreadful attendance began to drop off. Fortunately we finally acted and threatened to bar and trespass them if they didn't stop. Complete lack of respect for the process and others.
        1. p_j_w · · focus · HN ↗
          Did you read the article?
          1. LazyMans · · focus · HN ↗
            Yes. An individual with a lack of regard for the process trying to talk about flock in a slot allocated for a separate topic. People don't just get to make up their own rules in these meetings. When people do this, it destroys their credibility, the credibility of whatever they are trying to speak on, and is disrespectful to all the people in attendance.
        2. 0c3ca83 · · focus · HN ↗
          Your only other submitted story this year has been promoting Flock's "new safety standards. Most of your recent posts are trying to promote flock. I wonder if you actually attend any local neighborhood meetings.
          1. LazyMans · · focus · HN ↗
            Many, hyper local as well as NPU level. They're quite powerful meetings.
        3. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

          [deleted]

Open on Hacker News to reply ↗

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.