Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 months agoMost protest arrests in the US are released the same day or the next day. Nobody looking to make a movement is getting taken off the board.
Of course the people in power do keep trying to change that. But as of yet, they’ve been unsuccessful.
CatTrickery@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
While they are released it assists the police with intelligence gathering. In the UK police are known for giving bail conditions like “you can’t meet within more than 4 people”
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah they’ve been doing that for so long the American first amendment includes the right to “peaceably assemble”. And I should be clear these arrests are absolutely a breach of our rights. In the US it would be unthinkable for someone carrying a gun to be arrested without provocation.