It’s not about arrests. It’s about sending a message.
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phoneymouse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fifty-seven people had been booked into the Travis County Jail in connection to the protest, Travis County sheriff’s office spokesperson Kristen Dark said Thursday morning
All have had their charges disposed, Dark said, but it was unclear how many people had been released from the jail as of Thursday morning
They just arrest people and let them go… just for a photo op I would guess.
If you’re arresting people and letting them go without charges, you shouldn’t be arresting them in the first place.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They dont care about convictions. They just want the kids to fuck off so that they can go back to their daily routine of donut eating and spousal abuse.
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Do these arrests without further charges show up on these people’s criminal records? I sure hope not.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think you need to be convicted of a crime… though it’s possible the arrest record is searchable.
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Does anyone know if searching arrest records is possible? I feel for these people if they are as I have read many USA employers check this sort of thing. Would be a shame to not get your career started as you got basically illegally arrested for peaceful protest. That just feels all kinds of wrong.
acetanilide@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It depends. If you want a security clearance you’re probably fucked. But then I guess if you’re protesting a war you probably don’t care to have the type of job that requires a security clearance.
Also since a lot of arrest records are easily found online, for free, with no login (some states more than others), employers are bound to find it even if it’s unethical (or illegal) to search that way.
theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
In North Korea, the state security forces can just grab you and lock you up for no reason, beating you up, taking your wallet as civil forfeiture, making you lose your job, and dropping you off miles from home with no transportation.
Good thing that could never happen in the US!
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 months ago
I don't think that's the kind of thing people talk about when they say North Korea is oppressive
Do you know what happens to you in North Korea the day after you attend a protest against the government's policies? Because it definitely isn't getting dropped off and having to find your own way back home.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think you missed the point. Yeah, North Korea is significantly worse.
But that’s not the point, the point is that emulating any part of their police state behavior is unacceptable.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 months ago
If the comment had said "In North Korea, the state security force can just puts you in a prison camp for years for way way less than these protestors did, and it's a bad thing that we're emulating 5% of their police state behavior, because that's still too much," then sure. I would have written a different thing in reply, if they had said that.