Comment on Canadian journalist arrested for dissent
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 10 months agoYeah he was being an asshole. The cop kind of was too but… purposely walk into someone on a public sidewalk and you lose my sympathy.
Comment on Canadian journalist arrested for dissent
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 10 months agoYeah he was being an asshole. The cop kind of was too but… purposely walk into someone on a public sidewalk and you lose my sympathy.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s easily possible that the cop engineered the whole thing by standing in a strategic spot knowing full well that Mr. Safarihat was going to walk right into him. Cop was still standing still at the time of the bumpage.
Also, I’m from the US, so I was floored by how polite the arrest was. Cop #1 was downright passive-aggressive about it. Down here that move of saying “What are you talking about? How am I under arrest?” combined with physical resistance meets with at the bare minimum getting slammed against the car and your arms manhandled around behind your back. Usually you get thrown face-down on the pavement with a bunch of people on top of you too.
I’m not saying it should to be that way, that’s just what I’ve observed. Up in Canada they literally let go of him for a while and had a whole conversation with him about it during while he got to keep his microphone in hand and wave it around at them.