I was arrested, jailed and assaulted by a guard. My 'crime'? Being a journalist in Trump's America

[Judi Lynn]

In his 30-year career, The Independent’s Chief US Correspondent Andrew Buncombe has filed dispatches from across the world. Last week, while reporting on protests in Seattle, he was arrested for the first time. What he saw next throws the spotlight on a broken criminal justice system

@AndrewBuncombe
9 hours ago



Seattle’s protest in support of Black Lives Matter was established just days after the killing of George Floyd. To the participants and their supporters, the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) was a living experiment in how a community might exist without police. To their detractors, most vocally Donald Trump, who denounced them as anarchists and terrorists, the protesters and the six city blocks they had been ceded were proof of liberals gone mad. It was quirky and it was controversial.

For a month, as demonstrators marched in cities around the world, demanding racial justice and the defunding of police departments, Seattle’s protesters existed in an uneasy half-life, partly tolerated by a mayor keen to avoid more violence, and despised by those who thought the police had been wrong to abandon the area.

Then, on July 1, the city decided the experiment was over. It was time to clear the protesters.

How badly did Seattle need to retake those streets? Enough to arrest a journalist covering the operation?

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/journalist-arrest-seattle-chaz-protest-police-prison-black-lives-matter-a9606846.html

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. One would hope he would file suit.

[Amy-Strange]

2. Ever since 1999, the police in this city have gotten out of hand.

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Not all of them, but enough.

FYI: 1999 was when the WTO riots happened.
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[Amy-Strange]

3. Wanna know how to get back at someone you hate in this city (Seattle)?

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Just call 911 and tell them you heard someone next door beating up a women.

Give the address of the person you hate, and then wait for the fun.

The cops will immediately go there, and if the owner doesn't let them in, they can legally break down the door.

It's legal because of the domestic violence laws in this state.

I know because it happened to me, and I'm not saying the law is bad, but they really should fix up that little problem I mentioned above.

Of course, I could've just let them in (I wasn't beating up anyone), but pot was illegal back then, and you can figure out the rest.
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