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

218 points · 261 comments · latexr

p_j_w · 1790179654 · 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. paulddraper · 1790181252 · focus · HN ↗
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  1. pixl97 · 1790181411 · focus · HN ↗
    Looking at the the wrong way, what the citizenship in mass should be doing is surrounding the meeting with torches and making said council fear for their lives.
    Aurornis · 1790182227 · focus · HN ↗
    Violent threats only sound like a good idea if you can only imagine them being used by people you agree with.
    A society that let small mobs carrying torches dictate your laws would not be good for you, me, or anyone other than the most violent vocal minority.
    ashkankiani · 1790183653 · focus · HN ↗
    You might want to look at how a small mob orchaestrated by and comprised of Bush's campaign flooded voting offices to stop a recount, as part of a successful effort to steal the election from Gore <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
    They didn't even need torches to subvert democracy. I think a majority of Americans are under the misconception that they live in a civilized democracy, and that they have been for a while. But if you look under the covers (or if you're a minority), or just learn history, then you'll find that it's not.

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