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Climate Activist Arrested as He Was Performing Bach Piece in NYC Public Plaza (www.democracynow.org)
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[โ€“] Telorand@reddthat.com 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow. Sounds like such a public nuisance. /s

Inb4 the charges all get dropped next week.

[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

The point of these police assaults is to intimidate people into giving up. And, to some degree, they work. The DAs can keep these arrests on their records and use them for subsequent arrests. Citibank can push a litany of civil injunctions against them (restraining orders, for instance). Police can just make shit up (drunken disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, terrorist threats, whatever they feel like) and leave the victims to contest it. Eventually, its just a question of how much money you've got for your defense lawyers and how unfriendly a judge the DA can find to participate in the harassment.

Look up the history of Steven Donsinger, a plantiff's attorney for an Eucadorian community that sued DOW Chemical over failure to clean up a nasty spill. The way the federal judiciary treated him brings the very core conceits of our civil justice system into question.