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Police: Mock us in Cartoons, go to Prison

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Re: Police: Mock us in Cartoons, go to Prison

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Yeah. This is police harassment, plain and simple. Piggies! Also: http://www.kingcounty.gov/courts/SuperiorCourt/judges/cayce....

Actually, it's the judge and the prosecutor who are on the hook more for this use of Cyberstalking (and likely ultimately terrorism laws) to umask a critic using their First Amendment rights.

The prosecutor is at risk for losing their qualified immunity, since he is using his position to commit a civil rights crime.

Re: Police: Mock us in Cartoons, go to Prison

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well, at least they didn't do that to him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ljYNgLnpxM

The guy's screaming "Dad! Dad! Dad!" ... that breaks my heart.

One bystander wisely asks "How do you resist when they're on top of your back?" and then wonders why they don't just put the cuffs on him and be done with it. That's a common theme I've noticed with these incidents: the assailants keep saying "stop resisting! stop resisting!" But I imagine it's kind of hard to stop struggling and moving around when you're terrified, in excruciating pain, and being crushed with body weight like that.

Wrongful and unwarranted arrest is bad enough, but this sadistic torture and power-play brutality has got to stop.

Oh and get this:

http://www.cityoffullerton.com/civica/press/display.asp?layo...

Would you go forward if you were a witness?

Re: Police: Mock us in Cartoons, go to Prison

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  Some believe that the police merely are 
  trying to use the guise of charges to obtain 
  the suspect's name in order to harass him 
  outside the courts.
A valid possibility, which speaks strongly in favor of anonymous speech still being important.
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