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justiceischeap

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5. I just love how people ask "Why didn't he just comply."

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 12:05 PM

Sep 2014

You can tell they don't get it. This guy was in jail, he's familiar with the legal process. He knew he'd done nothing wrong, so he asked why he was being arrested before allowing the cuffs to go on. Why do people insist that others just allow themselves to be wrongly imprisoned?

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