Woman Arrested Mid-Interview After Protesting Against Trump’s Venezuela Strike
3d 2h ago by lemmy.ca/u/Washedupcynic in news from www.yahoo.com
Watch the clip. Police comes right up to her and arrests her on camera.
"Arrested for obstructing a roadway"
Sees that it is plainly a sidewalk
"Failure to obey a lawful command"
Sees her completely cooperative
Everyone knows the crime is Criticizing Dear Leader, but they don't have the laws in place for that yet so they're improvising.
“You got an uphill battle here, counselor. She did look at him crossways.”
Meanwhile, dumbass Trump in the corner, seething and drooling with rage. "I didn't get muh peace prize..." and other mumblings that have nothing to do with the case.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as soon as I finished an interview speaking on Venezuela, I was arrested – the only person arrested out of 200 people,” she told the outlet.
Imagine that. 200 protesters, but she was the only one obstructing a roadway. That must have been crazy. 199 protesters safely protesting and this one crazy lady out in the road. /s
Should make the defence easy though.
Hopefully she can counter sue for first amendment violations.
If you read the article, the violation occurred earlier. They just identified her and arrested her then.
It’s all bullshit obviously, but I doubt the case will be cut and dry if they decide to pursue.
They probably have video footage or her uncovered face in the roadway after being instructed to move. Or she may have been doing something to stand out, from others, like yelling, getting close to officers, or organizing.
Even when protesting against a better government, remember to cover your face, especially if you plan to defy officer orders or do something more… extreme.
I got the impression she was a leader. It they will arrest you for being in the road, mask up!
Her actual 'crime' was organizing the protest.
The protest which was, as far as I can tell, entirely peaceful.
So... yeah.
That's effectively a crime now.
... do people see why some of us have been calling for more uh, ... effective means of resistance, for some time now?
They can and will 'just arrest everyone'.
They'll bankrupt the country doing it.
The movement needs to go through this more naive phase and reflect on the results so that it can mature and adjust strategies. It's easy to learn about history, see what finally worked in the past, and think that we should just 'skip to the end,' but that's not how large groups of people operate. You can expect an individual to learn from history and do what's most effective, but groups must always go through the entire process because the group infrastructure has to be built brick by brick.
... So you're saying we're just doomed as a species to eternal tragicomedy?
First as tragedy, n++ times as farce?
I... can't really realistically argue against that, but goddamnit is that depressing.
I only said we have to go through the process, but there's no reason we can't speed it up or prepare better for the consequences. I think the role of those who learn from history is to work behind the scenes to soften the blows we know are coming to those who learn the hard way, and ease the transition from one phase to the next.
In more concrete terms, maintain solidarity even with people you think are making a mistake, and prepare for the moment they are ready to do more.
Climate change is irrevesible and will ultimately destabilize the geopolitical situation to the point it will directly or indirectly kill billions of people this century... unless our species can demonstrate a hitherto unseen level of international cooperation and coordination.
Instead, the world's dominant hegemon twice elected a belligerent, incompetent, fascist, rapist pedophile warmonger.
... We don't have the time to go through the process. By the time people are ready to do more, it won't matter, nothing they do at that point will be able to outrun the inertia of the systemic collapse that's now baked into the proverbial cake.
We are two decades too late to try to do an anti-fascist, counterbalance version of accelerationism.
The magnitude of the tragicomedy simply intensifies as time progresses.
Welcome to Trump's Amerikkka
The article implies the officers identified her from blocking the roadway prior to the interview along with all the other protesters.
The interview happened after.
But kinda telling of the 200 people they only identified and arrested her.
Note that they apparently didn't arrest her when they saw her doing it.
They waited until when she was in front of a news cameras again because they wanted to make an example out of her.
The protest she was being interviewed about had previously been marching through the street...
Land of the Free
Bill Hicks had a joke that ended with, "You are free to do as we tell you."
And now he's dead.
To quote Tool's liner notes from the Ænima album in reference to Hicks, "Another dead hero"
I'll drink to that
My favorite album/song from my favorite band! 😍
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What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy!
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Thanks for saying that. Yahoo tries to set millions of data harvesting cookies, it's insane. Declining it means no video in this case.
This is the beauty of private tabs, they can set as many data harvesting cookies as they like, and the cookies are deleted when I close the window
Press X to doubt.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/private-browsing-use-firefox-without-history
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There's a lot of things private browsing does not do (partly because there's a lot more parts of the stack involved in privacy than just your web browser) but deleting cookies on exit is literally one of the things private browsing specifically does and is directly controlled by the browser
Nazis like to make examples of people
Flashback to people getting arrested in the red square for holding a white piece of paper
I remember watching a video like this but it was on Reddit and it was top post. It was also happening in Moscow, not the USA.
"The country of freedom" accuses the other country of their censorship in media, but then it starts doing the same things.
Freedom my ass I say
What a shithole country.
🎵 In the laaaand of the unfree... And the home of the depraved.🎵
Land of the fee, and the home of the slave.
🎶Ain't that America? Home of the fee, baby! 🎶
Good American slaves make a little noise, get gassed and go home. Good for nothing.
You're just a flight away! Come and save us! Show us how good for something you are.
You have a second amendment right, use it to empower yourself. I have my own backyard and currently it's not being fucked with.
You have the right to self-autonomy, use it to save the world.
Or will you just watch Hitler? You'd rather watch Hitler than take one flight and save Earth?
The final boss of shithole countries
Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon summed it up so well in Preacher
To paraphrase Brennan Lee Mulligan, paraphrasing Michel Foucault, "Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It's just a promise of violence that's enacted and police are basically an occupying army."
You guys wanna make some bacon?
How paraphrased are we talking, here? Because I'm pretty sure laws like "Don't murder" and "Don't rape" and the ability to punish people who break those laws aren't just an expression of one socio-economic ethnic group maintaining violent occupation over another.
Except even "don't murder" and "don't rape" isn't equally applied to all citizen. In the US, you got the orange man as the prime example. Here in Canada, you just gotta look at how first nations victims are more often than not left to fend for themselves, while Mounties will ignore them if the case involves any type of effort.
Fuck every US tech company while you're at it
Once this is over, and one day it will, we can't forget this, we can't forget what IS tech companies did under trump
Which, I'm sure, means that people will forget in about 5 minutes and then they return to the cool US napy tech
No need to wait, we can start right now.
One thing we can all do is switch from Microsoft Office (if you or someone you know is using that) to Libreoffice. Especially important that everyone cancels their Office 365 subscriptions. I singled this out because this is likely the way most people are directly funding big tech. Office 365 funds OpenAI which donated $25 million to Trump.
Also of course cancel your Copilot and ChatGPT subscriptions too.
In addition Reddit users should switch to Lemmy or Piefed.
Hmmm, I wonder who gives the tech company low-interest loans and much more? This tech bubble would not be possible without the support of international banking. Too big to fail, and so on.
Don't stop at tech or the USA, that won't accomplish anything. International banking cartel will buy the drop at bargain prices, AND give loans for the rebuild. I wonder who controls USA money? Oh, the FED. I wonder who these guys in the FED are? Oh look, those same banks.
They are not even hiding it
Reform or revolution.
-Rosa Luxemburg
You can try this
https://skipvids.com/?v=dNxc8YKHlpw&gl=US
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
USA is cooked, man. It's no longer a free country. Party of no censorship and free speech, yeah right.
If you aren't a rich white man it was never free. Most of us are just more adjacent to poverty(increase cost of food and housing) and injustice(ice raids in the suburbs) because we're in an economic valley. IMO If/ win the employment number recover the median voter will forget all about this
Meh. This was the local police. They wanted the group off the road, and the group wouldn't move. I don't really have a problem with this. These protests that block traffic and stuff hurt the wrong people. The guy or girl driving wherever shouldn't be the target. Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.
Yeah, nah. Protests are only effective if they're disruptive
Yes, but disruptive to who. I am saying this was disruptive to people who have no power to change anything. Go block the access point to a major commercial point of entry or something. That will at least hurt the trucking company because they have to pay the drivers either way.
Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.
Economies utilize roads. Average Joe driving to work is engaging in commerce and/or production.
And the boss will take it out of average Joe's payif he is hourly. If he is salary he will have to make up the lost time. The company will feel no pain at all.
It appeared to me that she was on the sidewalk?? How you gonna say she was blocking the road when she’s on the sidewalk? Isn’t that where people are supposed to be?
What it said was that she was leading the protest, and both her and others had refused to leave the road when ordered. Likely this was by one or two cops. When they had to call more out, they arrested the people who had refused the order. At that point she was on the sidewalk, but they knew who she was.
A protest with no inconvenience is a parade, not a protest.
Yes, but who you inconvenience matters. Do it to the right people.
Reporting Team Watches Women Kidnapped In Broad Daylight, Openly Wonders why Nobody Trusts Journalists
This is a really stupid take. The reporters had nothing to do with the arrest.
They stopped her there (obstruction of the road, the given reason). They were the reason her voice was heard in that second and not later, and lead to the arrest (the real reason).
I don't understand. ELI5?
He suggests the journalists should protect the girl from the police, get shot and die in order for him to trust journalists.
Yes, this is my stance. Anyone who would watch this happen and not intervene is a coward. If anyone reading this is tempted to interpret these words as sarcasm, you are misinterpreting me.
edit* The number of cowards downvoting this post is why I don't expect to survive this regime. Piss off.
Bad take.
If the journalists had intervened, the cops would have just arrested them and confiscated/deleted the interview.
You wrote horribly stupid wrong
A little sus that the reporter and camera operator weren't arrested for "blocking a road" even though they were standing in the same place.
She was arrested for blocking roadways earlier during a march she organized.
“You can beat the wrap, but you can’t beat the ride”
Or possibly losing your job, healthcare insurance, going bankrupt, etc.
Presuming it was autocorrect, but it should be RAP, record of arrests & prosecutions.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rap%20sheet#dictionary-entry-1
I don’t see anywhere on there that gives the etymology as an abbreviation? Etymonline gives the following:
rap(n.)
early 14c., rappe, "a quick, light blow; a resounding stroke," […] native or borrowed from a Scandinavian source
Slang meaning "a rebuke, the blame, responsibility" is from 1777; specific meaning "criminal indictment" (as in rap sheet, 1960) is from 1903
Thanks for the link.
Based on usage and spelling in my hometown of NYC, it's always been RAP, as shown in the second example (presuming journalists of yesteryear knew how to spell).
The second example doesn’t give an abbreviation as the origin of the link to rap sheet, is what I was saying; records, arrests, and prosecutions to mean RAP instead of rap sounds like a backronym.
Yeah, that's the real threat. An arrest record will absolutely jack up future background checks on future employment. Which you're going to encounter since your current employer will drop you for being a no-show. That will leave you without health insurance, threatening your savings until you can get employed again. Which will be very hard to overcome due to high unemployment (in some markets) and that arrest record.
The fact that there's a through-line from "no social safety net" all the way to "compliant populace" is worrying to say the least.
Soon enough, those threats aren't going to be relevant.
Thankfully it seems like no one said this yet, so just inb4:
She was not stupid, nor useless or played into their hand. Be inspired and take example. Being arrested for a little bit is not that big of a price to pay for resisting tyranny.
More importantly, without blindly believing it will automatically come true, at least put the scenario where you win into your heads. Going to prison for what's right can actually be liberating, if you think about it. And people can be taken out of prison too, together with all those that were imprisoned for getting or giving an abortion, those that immigrated "illegally" but spent decades contributing to the US's society and economy, those that only had a bunch of weed on them, etc. Maybe even the whole "for-profit prison" concept may finally come to an end. Imagine that!
How Russia-esque
Land of the free1, home of the brave
- Terms and conditions apply
*Land of the Thief, home of the Slave
--Brother Ali
Yep, that came to mind, but I wanted to keep the original phrasing.
Land of the free
Whoever told you that is your enemy
That whole ass record goes exactly as hard today as it did on release.
(Rage Against the Machine's self-titled debut, shit rips)
I think "brave" also needs a footnote.
Yeah, probably something along the lines of "only if you agree with someone's ideology"; the same "Terms and conditions apply" also works.
If this had happened in Venezuela in last couple of days the media would be loosing it's shit. The image of that arrest would be immortalized and treated like the Saigon pistol execution.
Immediately following the attack, bombing and kidnapping of Maduro, journalists were rounded up around the country.
Our media isn't making a stink about it because they are complicit in the manufacturing of a narrative here and you can't have people in Venezuela contradicting that narrative.
Fight back soon?
The only way we're gonna fight back is when the government takes away something like Netflix or McDonald's.
What do you think this lady was doing? What exactly do you suggest people do?
Be armed and not let police haul fellow protesters off. These half measures are nothing but performative garbage.
You're telling me that you would personally get into a shootout with law enforcement if they tried to arrest a fellow protester?
It's easy to talk big from behind a keyboard.
The trolls around here never prop themselves up as an example, especially when suggesting escalation or even violence. They're baiting the gullible and distracting everyone else from working on a better answer.
At a certain point we'll have to.
Not at all what I was getting at but you've proven that you aren't united enough to stand against this tyranny and are still okay with hanging each other out to dry as long as you get to go home safe and sound. Agree with them or not but the Bundy standoff is a prime modern example of armed civilians uniting and running off law enforcement. Cowards are just speed bumps on the road to fascism. Live free or die trying.
By “the Bundy standoff,” I assume you mean the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by Ammon Bundy and his followers? The event that law enforcement took an extremely hands-off approach to because everyone involved was white, and still ended up with one of the participants dead?
If the people who took part in that occupation had been anything other than rich, white, and strongly religious, they would have had tanks rolling in to clear them out.
If you’re talking about the other Bundy standoff, where Ammon’s father Cliven decided he didn’t want to pay to graze his cattle on public lands, lost every court case, and prevented the government from seizing his cattle by showing up with an armed militia… I don’t think a rich white sovereign citizen faces the same level of consequences from their actions as everyone else does.
Good slaves like yourself know your place.
Walking around unarmed while being brown. I suggest people don't do that.
Getting REAL close to my home fascist pig fucks. I am very please that my State is both concealed and open carry. This shit WILL NOT STOP until they start getting pushed back, HARD. I have been hearing chatter in the streets in regards to 'while you are in the streets kidnapping us, who is watching your house'?
Just like putin’s ruzzia
This is what the 2nd amendment is for
The thought police strike again.
https://youtu.be/C2xuCDaET5w
Soon
Exactly the video I thought of. But "soon"?! It literally already happened in OPs video!
Not yet. In the Russian video, the second woman is being arrested for supporting the military operation
For the lazy ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
Thank you
America today: “oh no someone should stop this!”
Also America today: “ooooh new iPhone!”
WW3 will have USA, Russia, China fighting on the same side.
Mark My Words
I really don't think this is correct. The US and China are at odds geopolitically, they have conflicting interests. Why would they join forces?
Same with Russia, at odds geopolitically - in constant proxy wars across the world.
And yet.. President Krasnov has repeatedly praised president Putin, given him favourable deals (abandoning the Kurds, pausing sanctions around Ukraine, removing sanctions imposed post-Crimea annexation, holding off on using very powerful financial sanctions available to directly squeeze Russia's plutocrats and Putin).
Not sure your theory that a country being at odds geopolitically means shit when Trump is president and the Republicans in the house and senate largely enable/encourage him.
I know it may seem like it, but the entire US is not completely at the whims of Trump. His orders require all sorts of buy-in. He needs to keep generals, police commissioners, mayors, senators, judges etc. at least somewhat aligned with him, at least enough not to actively push back against him.
I know it seems painful and difficult to believe, but the ruling class (billionaires, oil tycoons, aerospace companies, etc.) in the United States are firmly in favor of the US invasion of Venezuela. Trump would not be allowed to remain in power if he acted against the interests of the ruling class.
The United States is not a democracy. It has a year-round circus in the forms of elections, and keeps bread affordable enough, for now.
And they are fighting who exactly? World wars became world wars because the world's superpowers were fighting each other.
What happens if Europe decides to defend Greenland?
The only defense Europe will put up will be a firmly worded letter and some tut-tutting.
I wish I were wrong but I don't think I am.
You mean like how they're defending Ukraine? Lol
Well you are Okarin- this guy has been to the future. I’ll take your word any day.
Good ol’ GRPD. They made a whole show on HBO Max to try to improve their image, and then they turn around and do shit like this.
You can't trust anyone. Be extra careful about what you tell people as in this wretched police state you can never be sure if you could suddenly be arrested anything that you say.
If this is NOT another reason why you should study socialist/communist theory, I don't know what is. https://redsails.org/
MLive link https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2026/01/womans-mid-interview-arrest-at-grand-rapids-protest-sparks-national-attention.html
clip on INVIDIOUS
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
She was obstructing stupidity. Now they can be as stupid as they want.
If you ain't protesting armed expect this. I doubt police want to commit suicide by protester.
You’re right, police officers don’t want to die from protestors. That’s why they wear body armor and have armored vehicles, and the National Guard gets deployed if those aren’t enough.
If you pull a gun on a police officer while they’re arresting someone, it’s very likely that you and everyone behind you in the line of fire are going to get shot, repeatedly.
I guess there's no reason for anyone to protest then. They'll ignore you or kill you. Why bother with performative bullshit that'll bear nothing?
I doubt anyone wants to die just for a protest.
tankman.jpg would like a word
I doubt anyone wants to live at the otherside of a lack of protest
No risk, no reward. Good luck.
Weak shit. Pigs back down when protesters are armed.
Too bad she didn't have a CCW, otherwise maybe she could have shot her kidnappers.
What does Marx think of wrongful kidnappings by the police?
We need socialism
I'm all for socialism, but what exactly in social ownership of the means of production prevents this? This is plain authoritarian censorship, socialist or not.
A down-top socialist approach would give actual democratic control over "capital", meaning for example that those who provide the news would control it independently from those who provide the food on people's tables, and big decisions inside them would be taken democratically among the big number of workers.
The reason these police kidnappings happen is that right now those capitals are all controlled by a very small monopolistic elite, twisting the national democratic process, preventing people from having actual control even over the State. Thus, media, food and police are all working basically for the same few guys.
They had me cut my flag off my PVC flagpole because it's dangerous, but I can still legally carry a gun to these.
She will just disappear.
Not yet. They'll hold her for a day or two and release her without charges.
They released her within a few hours
I agree this makes the US look really bad.
As I understand, she was arrested as the organizer of an unplanned parade which blocked the road.
The optics are poor, but if you were impacted by the blocked road, you'd be celebrating this.
"Please protest in the designated protest zone over there so we don't have to acknowledge it"
Protests are supposed to be disruptive.
Fuck that, streets are for people. Walking in the street is good, actually, and the motherfucking cars are the interlopers.
And that's before even considering the context of it being a protest!
!fuckcars@lemmy.world is leaking, and I'm here for it! 🥳
"Makes the US look really bad"
Right now, the US is really bad.
No I'd be celebrating the blocked road
As I understand it, the US is a fashist shithole and things like this are to be expected
Thats a lot of words to say “you aren’t allowed to protest in the fascist USA.”
People are calling for open revolt due to the fascists in charge but DoN,t BlOcK tHe RoAdS wHiLe DoInG iT
I absolutely would not
These aren't the stupid Stop Oil protestors.