Link: https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/

https://web.archive.org/web/20260219195154/https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPF3rTT0mY&t=7100s

This is exactly why there are non-profit bail funds to donate to in many communities. These funds frequently help cover these people that are the vanguard of democracy.

Police officers always seem to align with the interests of the capitalist (Epstein) class. What is it about that job that attracts so many people with contempt for the working class?

Acab, obviously.

But do you seriously not understand why cops follow orders from politicians and not citizens?

We just ignored the part where we cared about who our politicians were.

I’m stealing the phrase ‘Epstein class’, that’s a great way of explaining how horrific the rich and powerful are

Land of the free.

I’m gonna say “arrest is unwarranted. Just kick ‘em out or end their speaking time.”

I didn’t coin the term.

Epstein class perfectly describes how they see themselves above laws and human decency. The world should never allow people to amass that much wealth.

I’m waiting for videos of cops fighting against Nazis instead of protecting them.

Nah, there are options between “nothing” and “arrest”. Even for Nazis.

I wouldn’t be sad about some Nazi-punching though.

What's the alternative though? Let everyone be above the law? Because, that just sounds like a recipe for more trouble.

Kick them out?

🙄

You picked the least app username I've ever seen

The rich give the violent dullards and chest-thumpers the imprint of honorability.

The average cop imagines himself a Knight Protector of the Realm when he is, odds on, Barney Fife with a spouse who flinches.

That's not remotely what they were saying. Wtf

It was a joke.

ACAB

I would say he was prophetic. But a lot of us realized what he did during COVID. Had a minute to think and pay attention.

Whoever told you that is your enemy

a paycheck :/

All of the answers before this are wrong. It's their vein attempt to show us that they're better than us. And that's it. They're so uncomfortable with themselves they they have to take you out on you. They believe they are part of the club.

This dude just unironically accidentally solved capitalism.

That must be that "freedom" that Vance and Rubio say Europe lacks.

The Epstein class is not just capitalist. Stop sewing bullshit.

That YouTube video is wild. Approximately 20 seconds from being first notified that his time was up, officers had already come up to him. 20 seconds. He handed them his documents. He was done. There was no logical reason for the arrest.

I think the term is capitalist propaganda that's trying to separate the bad rich from the "good" rich. "Yeah I made hundreds of millions insider trading and don't pay any taxes but hey, I never hung out with those bad rich guys."

Well at this point you can escalate, since they escalated first after being kicked out. But you don't start by arresting.

lol what’s the alternative? Tax the shit out of them. That amount of wealth is a danger to every democracy and the planet.

It’s capitalists and people in power which generally serve the capitalist class.

I don't know, I think any linguistic coinage that gets Americans in general to finally get that the rich hate and want to destroy them, the better.

I didn’t see the video.

...but you'll happily spend multiple posts arguing about it, even though a link to it was right there in the post.

while I don't disagree with your statement, I'm certain that it was not the cops who made this call.

Stupidity.

Cops are almost entirely made up of people who were too stupid to get a white collar job.

Predators protect predators.

As a blue collar guy, I think they’re too stupid to be blue collar workers.

Edit- I had to do a 5-year apprenticeship, pass a state certification test and do continual education to maintain the certification.

How long is the average American police academy and how challenging is it?

YouTube doesn't work for you? Second link down.

So they were just... following orders?

It's also sowing

That would explain the massive overlap in domestic violence.

They arrest the opposition for nothing to keep others from speaking out.

No, it is, they decide whether to make the arrest or not. They decided to violate the first amendment, and embraced a bad faith request by a cynical and corrupt local lawmaker bought out by the tech industry.

That is no cop out that they were "ordered" from a city council member, they take an oath to protect and defend the constitution, and other laws, and don't get to cop out to following orders in violating the freedom of speech, and other laws and decency in such a transparent abuse of power in service of tech.

Is it Vein or is it an arterior motive?

The arrest was done to warn the other peasants