Jail for using chalk on sidewalk?

[motely36]

Forget murderers and thieves. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and police Chief Paul Rooney are using their resources — and your money — to go after a 25-year-old who was brandishing a writing utensil.

One that washes away with the rain.
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Just before Christmas, OPD arrested 25-year-old Timothy Osmar for "writing or painting advertising matter on streets or sidewalks"

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/views/os-scott-maxwell-occupy-politics-010812-20120107,0,2434749.column

The man arrested is part of the Occupy Orlando Protest.

[handmade34]

1. no more hopscotch???

[WingDinger]

3. When I was about six, they told us at school, NOT to write bad words in chalk outside the school. SO

I stole a piece of chalk, and trying my best to remember a bad word, and using the best penmanship I had just learned, wrote a few.

A big kid saw me, and tried to turn me in. I ran home and barricaded the door.

Finally, he went away.

And so, my life as a nonviolent protestor began.

[Earth_First]

4. What's worse is that this individual has been held since CHRISTMAS?!

From the article:

"As of Friday, Osmar was still in jail..."

Almost two weeks worth of incarceration for chalking a sidewalk?!

[Solly Mack]

5. Damn

[James48]

6. OMG- We're being overrun!

[gopiscrap]

7. This is so friggin rediculous

and we wonder why people hate cops, lawyers and judges?

[sarcasmo]

8. Police State America.

#1 at putting people in prison.

[AZ Progressive]

9. Free country my ass

What good is the constitution and America's "values" if the people and the government don't respect them? And its interesting how Americans in the government would be tyrannical given the chance. That shows how little respect they give to America and how little patriotism they actually have.

[MadHound]

10. He wasn't jailed for using chalk on a sidewalk,

He was jailed because he is part of the Occupy movement. The chalk was simply the needed excuse.

[AZ Progressive]

11. The Occupy Movement perhaps has aided in having an even more cynical point of view of government

Seeing how local government would be tyrannical if given the opportunity. Impressions of mayors like Bloomberg and Villaraigosa, among others, have been shattered...