This is why you should never appease BLM and the protesters by settling lawsuits

I'm pretty sure the Baton Rouge mass arrests were the same ones that picked up the Breitbart guy. Unless you think he was out there smashing windows, it sounds like they had a case and the settlement was deserved.

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I did nothing to break the law. I was not obstructing traffic because with the road closed and police blocking the lane, there was no traffic. At no point did I hear the police give any order for me or anyone else to stay back. I was given no warning whatsoever; I was simply approached and forced to stop recording.

As the video shows, the police came directly at me. I do not know why I was targeted. Other people shooting photos and video who were in the same spot that I was were not. I don’t believe race is a factor, since some of those other photographers were also white. I simply do not know.

The police took my camera and put a temporary pair of handcuffs on me. I was taken across the street and into the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters for initial processing. There were about 15 other protesters being brought into the system at the same time; arrests were going on throughout the night.

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While a number of the protesters I was in with would likely have no problem with being described as “young thugs” – in fact, they would probably take it as a badge of honor – that is definitely not the way the entire group should be described. There were also idealistic young people, a PhD who worked at LSU doing research on the connection between AIDS and alcoholism, a man who had his own web development company, and others who do not fit the preconceived stereotype some people may have of the type of people who would be arrested at a protest.

We had a lot of time to kill, and I had some great conversations. I quickly learned that the issue here in Baton Rouge for these people was not ideologically driven. Over and over, they told me the issue was not about Democrat or Republican but about the way law enforcement handles things in both Baton Rouge and the state of Louisiana in general, which has one of the largest incarceration rates in Western civilization. These protesters did not have the agenda of overthrowing capitalism that many of the top leaders of Black Lives Matter have; they want police abuse to end, and they see the Alton Sterling case as emblematic of that problem.

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I member when some posters cared about police misconduct and phony arrests regardless of who was targeted

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Then let his case play out in court like he's legally entitled to do so and if he has a good case that he's likely to win, then by all means settle the case and pay the man.

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Pretty sure that's exactly what happened there. When you make an illegal mass arrest that includes multiple journalists the DA isn't gonna have a whole lot to work with.

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The problem here is that BR went way out of their way to settle suits and pay ransom money when they had exactly no leverage at all being held over them.

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The problem here is that you're continuing to make arguments that depend on specific details of a case you just demonstrated you don't know jack shite about. The frick you know about what leverage they did or didn't have? Don't try and tell me this is based on anything but you seeing the name "Deray McKesson" and running your mouth because TRIGGERED.

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When you make an illegal mass arrest that includes multiple journalists the DA isn't gonna have a whole lot to work with.

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And he was released thereafter with no injury to himself and no further legal summons as he clearly cooperated with the police and the were courteous to him in kind.

Dude, you know as well I do that I don't trust police very much and am against a police state but mass protests are quite different from controlled and isolated situations when there is chaos everywhere, human emotions are running high and people on both sides are not as rational as they would be in an isolated and controlled environment.

These mass arrests are about crowd control and defusing potential dangerous situations. That's why the BRPD, EBRSO and Louisiana State Police were so effective in making sure the protests didn't get out of hand, especially compared to northern cities where police just let rioters frick shite up. Edmonson, Gautreaux and Dabie clearly had carte blanche from up on high to do just that. Anything that looked like they had the potential to start trouble and/or encourage others to do was getting arrested.

Catch and release. Simple as that.

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. Don't try and tell me this is based on anything but you seeing the name "Deray McKesson" and running your mouth because TRIGGERED.

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Dude, Deeray brought a whole bunch of people with him to try and block roadways including the interstate and they attempted to do so and they were promptly arrested for it. They clearly violated the law.

And they still got payouts from the city.