July 17, 2010
Assault
A couple of days ago, I posted a YouTube of a Toronto police officer arresting a demonstrator for blowing bubbles in his general direction. “If a bubble touches me,” the officer warns the demonstrator, “you are going to be arrested for assault.”
The video has apparently received a lot of attention on the Internet, and the [...]
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July 13, 2010
Assault
With thanks to Jonathan Turley of the Res Ipsa Loquitur Blog, here is a video of a Toronto woman apparently being arrested for assaulting a police officer with bubbles. If this had happened in Philadelphia (at least under the old regime), the woman would also have been charged with disorderly conduct, failure to disperse, and [...]
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