D.C. Police Charged Demonstrators With Wearing Masks ...

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-police-charged-demonstrators-with-wearing-masks-even-though-coronavirus-guidelines-require-them?ref=home

D.C. Police Charged Demonstrators With Wearing Masks Even Though Coronavirus Guidelines Require Them
MAKE UP YOUR MIND
Blake Montgomery, Reporter
Published Jun. 02, 2020 5:25PM ET
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Police in Washington, D.C., arrested protesters Monday for wearing masks even though coronavirus precautions require face coverings be worn outdoors at nearly all times. Arrest records cited by local media indicate that protesters were charged with “Wearing a Hood-Mask” in addition to curfew violations, but D.C. health recommendations mandate that people gathering in public or entering businesses cover their faces to slow the spread of COVID-19, and experts say large gatherings could accelerate the virus’ transmission. The Washington arrests come after police tear gassed protesters so that President Donald Trump could take a photo in front of St. John’s church near the White House amid widespread protests over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody.

[tblue37]

1. Good lord! nt

[bigtree]

2. the nation has lost its mind

[BComplex]

4. Not the nation. Just a president who is friggin' nuts.

[still_one]

3. WTF

[unblock]

5. the charge is often irrelevant

they just want to arrest, get the person off the street, maybe rough them up in the process, then release them.

charges are about actual law enforcement, they're not particularly interested in that at the moment.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Exactly. Charges that matter come from the state's attorney, district attorney, whatever the...

public prosecutor's office is called in that area. Being arrested for something "on the spot" and being officially charged for something can be two completely separate things, if official charges even result from an arrest under such circumstances.

[ARPad95]

6. It's just another day in crazy, up is down, down is up, inside out, topsy turvy Dumpster world!

[gopiscrap]

7. anyone wonder why people hate fucking cops

[elias7]

18. They doing what they're told to do. Hate the higher ups.

Do you think the cops have started shouted at the press on their own? Someone gave that order and it was federal since it all started on one night. Hate the cops for succumbing to bad orders, but it’s like hating and charging a hit man with murder when it was ordered from above.

[EndlessWire]

19. I agree.

Trump did this. I blame Trump for the Grandma in San Diego. Fuck Trump.

[gopiscrap]

20. that's also what Hitler's Nazi enablers said too

"We're just following orders"

[crickets]

21. +1

[NYC Liberal]

24. You think a hit man shouldn't be hated or charged?

Police officers have free agency. They are perfectly capable of refusing illegal or unethical orders. They are making a conscious choice to do what they're doing.

[greenjar_01]

25. Oh for fuck's sake

[Bev54]

8. One good lawyer should be able

to go in to court and get everyone of those charges dropped in one go.

[Pepsidog]

11. But that doesn't get rid of the arrest and charges against your criminal record. If the charges are

dismissed, in most States, your criminal record says just that, charge dismissed. It's still a mark against your record which must be expunged which is often complicated and could be be costly. These events just do not disappear, they have consequences. Dismissed doesn't mean disappear.

[Bev54]

17. Wow

Didn't know that, not the same here in Canada

[smirkymonkey]

9. WTF?

This country has gone completely mad!

[BadgerMom]

12. Bastards.

They’ll use any excuse to confront peaceful protesters exercising their constitutional rights. They are the same people whining about the Second Amendment any chance they get.

[gopiscrap]

22. as they say: ACAB

All Cops Are Bastards

[tiredtoo]

13. I still think we should have a like button here..

Many posts on these threads i like but have nothing to add. oh well.

[LiberalFighter]

14. I'm getting tired of the police.

[gopiscrap]

23. Fuck I have been tired of fucking power hungry steroid fueled pigs for a long time

[LiberalFighter]

15. Police need to be charged with false arrest.

[Solly Mack]

16. So asswipe can claim X many arrests as a brag

to show how tough he is blah, blah, blah.

More bullshit theatre at other people's expense.