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Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

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Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

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Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
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Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council.’

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    People finally finding out who the cops are there to protect.

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    This is how you know you don’t live in a free country. If you try to stop someone from making money, boom, straight to jail.

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    Next time one is planning to protest flock or some other horrible technology at a city council, they should bring several freinds. Its harder for a couple of cops to handcuff and drag off half a dozen people.

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      • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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        Historically the jails would fill and they couldn’t arrest more.

        Today we have a for profit prison industry, so it’s harder. But the same tactic works on a large enough scale.

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        Join the Halloween movement and find out

    • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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      Dozens went to this meeting

      Dozens of people showed up to the Springfield City Council Meeting on September 22 with plans to let city leaders know how they felt about the city’s use of automated license plate readers.

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    The citation literally has “middle finger to mayor” written.

    Why the fuck would that be a crime?

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      it’s not.

      the actual crime is the violation of her first constitutional right.

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    She’s my hero.

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