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Originally Posted by Lux
What exactly were you doing? I don't expect it to be too outrageous considering they encouraged violence so as to project an image of crazy violent youths. I was simple standing peacefully with the mass of protesters when the Police stormed towards us, one solidly built cop deciding that the best way to deal with me, a girl standing on the pavement with a sign, was to punch me in the face. So I'm guessing the aim was to get me and others around so angry that we'd attack them. Yes I'm about to attack a mass of big men each armed with baton and gun. I was allowed to scream a load of "f*ck you!" right up face to bloodied face with a cop though. Quite liberating to scream that at a cop and then spit (some blood) in his face. They never seemed to encourage the huge amount of middle aged and older protesters that were at the rallies. They didn't want to actually have to admit that even old people and middle aged well-to-do citizens were at these protests. What were your crimes?
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"Disorderly conduct" the first time and "inciting violence" the second time.
The first time was pretty much just a general sweep for everyone that was protesting at the Westover Air Force Base in MA. We had another protest there a week later and laid in the road; how I was "inciting violence" is a mystery to me. I did call the cop who arrested me a "c*nt," though, and he called me a piece of ****.