Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:42:55 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] Teens face 10 years in prison for riding over pride flag on bicycles References: <20240623122747.000055ed@example.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:40:32 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 27 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-7s4dsfUCV+r+FzevuR8sOOu01yrCSvrZbRriql1WdXsWJlDSZQX6ES1ZVtZVkwg8tFZdJxA5wA/lkuO!Jso4UZhf2leijftHTIt5ZHg9ROZCWncseq8DDEZT3aPwJw39G9q6+nvOlGbqq+D6XPePT432YLUo!z7k= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2043 In article , suzeeq wrote: > On 6/23/2024 11:27 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > > All I saw in the video were traffic violations that would have been > > proper charges, not crimes to be charged. > > > Wouldn't it be a deliberate act of vandalism, though? Or political speech. You know, like all the other political speech vandalism that goes unprosecuted-- even when committed right in front of cops-- because it expresses the 'correct' politics. This gets you a felony charge with the possibility of 10 years in prison: https://ibb.co/j3yJJ9P This gets you nothing. Not even an arrest and release, even when done right in front of cops: https://ibb.co/pXw83TY Apparently you're only allowed to vandalize public property to express your outrage when your outrage is politically approved by the government. That's not how America works, suzeeq.