Examples of police state in USA: Police violently arrest man for dancing with girlfriend, then
 

beat up some others

Sorry I can?t see where they violently arrested someone and then beat up some others. I defiantly have seen worse BUT I do agree with you there were no grounds for the arrest and yes the USA is becoming a police state.

LOL, I liked how several others decided to start dancing a jig during the arrest. Tell's me the the pot is getting closer to boiling over.

Why do I get the feeling there's more to it than just people walking around getting arrested?

They should violently arrest you and bring your fake nick to the biggest bubba in jail.

THAN you wil know what violentlt means.

butthurt much?

it's okay to cry.

Lol. You seem to be butthurt, what happend? Arrested for crossdressing in public? Rofl!

the police violating people's rights... nothing new... :(

Ignore the fact that there is a law against dancing there, that is okay.

ignore the fact only a complete moron would follow a retarded law like that.

There always. This video makes it look like a bunch of innocent people got arrested for no reason. Looks to me like they were all stoned, creating a nuisance, and when they were told to leave they refused. Act like a fucking idiot, you get treated like a fucking idiot.

"We must never forget that everything Hitler did was legal." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

make up your mind , it either looks like innocent people got arrested or it doesn't .


As much as i would like to trust your "i saw it on youtube" drug test. They looked a like a bunch of people dancing. They certainly weren't creating a nuisance to anyone there except the police.

The first dude they arrested was dancing thats it. He wasn't creating a nuisance in any way.

11 minutes

Organised flashmob of complete pricks.

More suitable title would be: Police arrest man and woman for being cunts who deliberately set out to provoke a response then whined like little babies afterwards.

Come on, THEY ARREST PEOPLE FOR THIS NOW, fuck you police!

Here is the full video:

Flash mob retards deserve a good beating. There are plenty of examples of police abuse in the US...... but this is not one of them.

I am full of admiration for the number of bystanders that were arrested in solidarity. Americans should be proud that there are people prepared to stand up against petty bullying by the police.

The police seem to share the same hatred of dance and music as the Taliban.

I wish people in the UK stood up to our racist bullying police.

Once again hats off to the American people.

lol surely this is fake right? :/

first or second thread about this?

No it's not fake. The court has determined that dancing inside of the memorials is a form of demonstration that disturbs the enjoyment of the memorial by those not engaged in demonstration. It is common for cities and national monuments to restrict demonstrations to areas designated for that purpose.

police are supposed to show discretion. That is why you are not arrested for jaywalking in front of your house but could be arrested for jaywalking on a busy highway.

This is a case where nobody needed to be arrested , nobody was causing a problem.

it just happens that in this place and this memorial in particular it is rather ironic to have that law.. beyond ironic actually. borderline insane. infact it is a complete mockery to his memorial.

To put it in perspective, it would be much like banning blind people from the helen keller memorial , then beating blind people for not reading the signs.

The guy was trying to get arrested. He purposefully went there to cause a nuisance and get arrested. The police asked him to just stop, or leave NUMEROUS TIMES. He purposefully refused and kept at it until they arrested him.

So basically he's sitting there and finds out dancing at that monument is against the law. He gets a bunch of his followers to go to the monument. They dance and cause a big enough ruckus so the police are called. Once the police get there and ask him to stop or leave, he riles them up, then begins to slow dance with the chick (to make his actions look even more innocent) and flips on a camera. So when the police finally do arrest him (possibly hours after this has all started), morons like yourself see the video and bring it to forums thinking the police were being assholes.

You sir, have been conned.

That's what I was thinking..

can you post the timestamp from the video please where they ask him numerous times to stop ?



the police were being assholes.. a backstory doesn't change what we see in the video.

the root of it is it is a stupid law if they are enforcing it.

The guy was trying to get arrested. He purposefully went there to cause a nuisance and get arrested. The police asked him to just stop, or leave NUMEROUS TIMES. He purposefully refused and kept at it until they arrested him.

So basically he's sitting there and finds out dancing at that monument is against the law. He gets a bunch of his followers to go to the monument. They dance and cause a big enough ruckus so the police are called. Once the police get there and ask him to stop or leave, he riles them up, then begins to slow dance with the chick (to make his actions look even more innocent) and flips on a camera. So when the police finally do arrest him (possibly hours after this has all started), morons like yourself see the video and bring it to forums thinking the police were being assholes.

You sir, have been conned.

Those folks wanted to be arrested, this has nothing at all to do with the US being a police state which it is not even close to being.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oh, but, like, ya know, oh well, I mean, come on, they got told, who cares, like, my shows on in a bit, and gary's bringing donuts, why do you always have to watch those stupid videos of people who get 'involved.'

Then the police are brain dead, all they had to do was ignore them. from the video we can see it did not bother anyone else.

If it was a crime who is the victim? Whose life or property was damaged?

No victim no crime

It is against the law to go over the speed limit in your car.

If you do you can receive a ticket.

You break the law you pay for it.

Who's the victim in that criminal offense?

Not every crime has a victim.

I agree that US is becoming a police state with no freedoms whatsoever. Just came back from NYC and loved the city and the people, but wouldn't want to live there just because of the above said. The people in the states are very friendly and helpful(actually I was surprised how much), but they don't deserve this...but its their fault I guess, since they believe everything thats beeing told to them and most don't even know that there is better life outside of the border, so they don't complain, they never experienced anything else, they think they are free.

Crap. i know some police over here and they all say that it's complicated to arrest a black person as the very first thing they say every time is that they were arrested just because they were black. The British police have to tread very carefully around ethnic groups because of the stupid PC brigade. The trouble with some black people is that they think that the police are racist, never mind that they have commited an offence to get themselves noticed in the first place.

Great law, clean arrests...much respect to the cops for keeping our national monuments clean of progressive/liberal filth.

They were asked multiple times to stop and not proceed with their purpose in the longer video that I posted. The police were being decent at the beginning as well.

The law itself seems kind of iffy, in some ways it does make sense. This group was asked not to proceed, they did anyway. They wanted to cause a fuss. They got their fuss and have the Internet all worked up, as seen in this thread.

Sometimes the popo are total cocks. This isn't one of those times.

it's hard to undrstand for for State fetishists, Simple as that...

As an aside to all this, the police are setting themselves up for this kind of mockery by their stances, strategies and tactics they develop themselves. There's just no question that none of this would be happening if the police wanted to be a respectable police force that shows compassion and mercy towards the public.

Look no further than Toronto's G20 fiasco. The current drama of the day is that even when given a photograph of a police officer who was seen in a video breaking someone's arm I believe, every other police officer could not identify them.

Including his two roommates, and his supervisor!! No idea who he is!!

That's breaking the law. They break the law too, anytime they can. The same code of silence they decry, they use whenever they need to.

Right now the only people holding the police accountable for their actions here are the newspapers. They only investigate themselves when they absolutely have to because there's overwhelming proof. Then they'll do anything they can to get around the proof. If they can't rid themselves of the smell enough, they'll do something like: 2 week suspension, with pay. No criminal charges.

Then you wonder why people are dancing where they're not supposed to? They're bringing it on themselves.

Yep they knew shit was coming but then again, what a fucking stupid law :1orglaugh
I just can't beleive it :1orglaugh

1st part

I agree, it's a pretty stupid law -- but it's probably in place because years and years ago some people were being assholes and creating a nuisance and ruined it for everyone, because the city made a law to try and prevent future occurrences.

And it's not like they got arrested for the nice slow dancing they were doing in the video, An hour before the video they probably had 10-15 people dancing all crazy and making asses of themselves creating a public disturbance. But, this crew isn't going to video tape that part. They're going to wait until after all that, after the cops have shown up, after this crew has been complete asses to the cops, and then right before the cops step in to finally put them in cuffs the crew will start acting so innocent and flip on the camera.

It's pathetic there are morons out there who eat this shit up and can't see past the complete fucking obvious.

Regardless of what anyone thinks about police or the law in question, these idiots went there with the intent of causing a disturbance and to get arrested. The police politely warned them in advance and told them they would be arrested, the idiots made the choice to continue, to defy the police and the police arrested them (as they also resisted arrest in the process).

Clearly there is much more to the story and it started well before the video shows... but hey, who needs all the info and facts before making a decision?

Simpletons.

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." - Abbie Hoffman

So you call his notion about why police were upset "speculation" while you then speculate and frame it as fact?

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Who are they and who is telling them what? How are they being told? Via which medium? Is there some type of schedule that says when they will tell us more? I'm afraid that I haven't been getting these messages and it might be nice to tune in for a little bit and hear what they have to tell.

Also, where is this place that which you speak where people don't complain? Certainly not in the US b/c everyone bitches about everything. Especially in NYC. lol

Huh?

YOU characterized his remarks as speculation.

YOU then speculate as to why police are upset in response to his "speculation".

Are you fucking high or what?

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Passive whiny Americans......