Dancing in the street with flowers. Hauled away by Gestapo. 7/24/2020. America

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[bluestarone]

1. Fucking lowlife bastards

[DonaldsRump]

2. OMG. God, or whatever, please help us.

[alwaysinasnit]

3. Apparently dancing with flowers is a federal offense.

[pazzyanne]

16. Or maybe they were afraid she would start throwing them at the federal buildiing.

What happens is disgusting and terrifying.

[DSandra]

4. This is Trump's "Dominating the streets"

And I guess Trump gets to make his own laws now...

[jaysunb]

5. This needs to be dealt with immediately.

We can't let a a few assholes take over this Country. Stop yelling and kick some ass.

[chia]

6. Just an excuse for them to shoot off how many rounds?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. Fucking scum

With guns,needs a hard Swift kick in the nuts accidently on purpose..

[Grasswire2]

9. It's not that clear.

Were the officers on federal property when that happened? That is their mandate. Protect federal property.

I don't believe they were on federal property, because that property is fenced and not accessible. No protesters would be able to access it.

And so we must deduce that these "gestapo" (they aren't really "officers" but rather hired mercenaries) were on city property. Public property.

Not their job to manage public property.

[triron]

14. Nazi's would have liked you.

[bluestarone]

20. AGREE

100%

[Bettie]

35. Right?

What's next..."make sure you report your neighbors if they are uncomplimentary or critical of dear leader!"?

[Bettie]

43. Well, report me to the

topic police then. I'd recommend the "tangent squad". LOL.

NO one EVER goes off topic!

[Wednesdays]

19. Would a "reasonable person" have feared for their safety in that situation?

[WyattKansas]

25. I thought I was the only one who thought that.

Very simple for protesters to understand that they are not allowed to touch them and when they retreat, do not follow them trying to escalate anything.

[Talitha]

26. I agree.

From my seat, it doesn't look like the woman was innocently 'dancing with flowers'. To me it looks like she was trying to taunt them and to their credit, they walked away.

But then she followed them... you don't do that. They were all ignoring her except the one who stopped her as she came at him with arms extended.

Her momentum is why she went down. The guy took her arm to stop her from advancing but she spun to her to her right, lost her balance, and went down on her ass.

Then a few people from the crowd rushed in. Maybe to help her get up? Hard to tell because of that 'shield' someone had. Then the confrontation started.

She should have blended back into the crowd and let the goonsquad leave. But instead, she pranced around like she was in a silly Monty Python skit and started some trouble. Sheesh.

[TomSlick]

29. She was clearly taunting the "officers." However, that is not probable cause for an arrest.

She was criminally assaulted and kidnapped by "officers" who were either untrained or emotionally unfit for policing in a tense environment.

Excusing the paramilitary take over of our streets empowers creeping fascism.

[Talitha]

30. I'm not 'excusing' or 'empowering' anything.

And I don't agree with these guys being forced into our cities, either.

However - THIS particular incident could easily have been avoided if, as I said, she had dropped back into the crowd and let the goonsquad leave.

Instead, she did a few really stupid things and caused the incident.

So yeah - THIS ONE is on her.

[TomSlick]

31. Not everyone is cut out to be a police officer. I have a much too short a fuse for the job.

Someone who reacts like this to a woman dancing with flowers has no business policing during protests. If an "officer" cannot hold himself to a higher standard than members of the public he is sworn to protect, he should find another occupation.

There was no probable cause for her arrest. Therefore, her arrest was nothing short of a kidnapping. "Disappearing" protesters has no place in this country.

Law and order requires the rule of law - not the rule by law enforcement but the rule of law. The rule of law requires the insistence by the public that officials respect the rule of law.

Silence is acquiescence. Excusing illegality empowers it.

[Talitha]

32. Yeah, I know.

[USALiberal]

39. classy! nt

[TomSlick]

28. I suggest you watch again.

At 26 seconds, one of these "officers" grabbed her - not the other way around.

I will grant you that she was taunting them but she poised no threat. Contempt of cop is not a crime in this country. An "officer" not sufficiently trained and capable of bearing taunting by a dancing woman carrying flowers has no business on the streets in a tense situation.

You are correct that there should be consequences for the actions seen on the video. The "officers" should be charged with assault and kidnapping.

[TomSlick]

41. Confirmation bias is a strong force. We tend to see things in such a way as to confirm our biases.

After years of practicing law, i have learned to recognize my biases and work to see both sides of the case.

In this case, I expected to see secret police sent to "dominate the streets" to do exactly that. That is why watched the video several times to see something - anything - that created probable cause for the assault and detention of the dancer. I could find none.

I hope that you recognize your biases, whatever they are, and try to watch the video with those biases in mind.

[TomSlick]

45. I saw her dancing behind the "law enforcement agent" taunting him.

I then saw the "law enforcement agent" turn and assault here.

The recent history of military intelligence interrogation units does not suggest a high level of training in concern for human rights.

I suppose it is all a matter of perspective.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

33. fuck off fascist

[rzemanfl]

36. Bookmarking. n/t

[Lars39]

38. And how many blocks away from the federal property

should protesters be inconvenienced by these representatives of the federal government.

[warmfeet]

10. They will pay for this shit if it takes the last breath I have.

Fuck the gestapo!

[luvtheGWN]

13. Are these Prince's goons?

My nephew's son was a US Marine. He left after 6 years and was offered a job with Blackwater (or whatever the name is now). $250K/year. He talked to some former buddies who warned him "Don't do it. These guys are mean jerks. You don't want to have anything to do with them". Fortunately my grand (or is it great?) nephew had a job waiting for him in his father's construction firm -- but he had buddies who joined Prince's goons.

[bobbieinok]

11. There's a 60s photo of a girl puting the stem of a long flower into a cop's/soldier's gun barrel,

As far as I remember, she wasn't arrested.

60s protestors faced less danger/harm than those today?

There might be some truth to that claim.

At least cops of 60s DID NOT HAVE military-grade weapons and vehicles. As yet, few were ex-military

[duhneece]

15. WE can be the flower in the gun. The song inspired me

https://m.

[bobbieinok]

18. Thank you for video. Comment #17 is a response

[bobbieinok]

17. The photo is extremely famous and is titled 'Flower power

There is an article about the photo, its history, the photographpher at Wikipedia.

I didn't realize how famous it is. I simply remembered seeing the photo at the time

The best depiction I could find on the internet is at magnumphotos.com/newsroom/

Not--this info is in response to the comment with the video of the song.

[Toorich]

12. Kudos to the young man

who jumped in and tried to help her. This shit makes me wish there was still stocks in town squares.
The ACLU or some firebrand lawyers need to set up a table and sign up every victim of these kidnappings
and flood the federal courthouse with civil rights lawsuits and if Discovery showed it was all a big plan, amend the pleadings
to a RICO petition.

[bluestarone]

21. So depressed here

Is there NO WAY to discover who these assholes are?

[Enoki33]

22. This is what dictatorships look like. Listen to those who

have personally experienced it.

[caraher]

23. Well, she was openly brandishing pistils

They were in danger of having their feelings hurt.

[crickets]

27. *snort*

[LudwigPastorius]

24. Oink!

oink, oinkoink, OINK!!

[malaise]

37. Fucking fascists

I hate them