People arrested for dancing- time to "cut loose"

[Dragonbreathp9d]

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That man that starts dancing in the cops faces is a true patriot

[Tanelorn]

1. At 1.51 I thought the cop was about to ask if he could dance with the bearded gent,

kept watching I was wrong .

[Tanelorn]

2. At 3.02.. Is that choke hold legal?

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. Home of the Brave, yeah!

Land of the Free? Not so much.

[bottom line]

4. feather

I keep seeing these "push me over with a feather" examples of Where in the... America?
For Waltzing...

[arikara]

5. This is surreal

I thought it was a joke. Arresting people now for dancing???

[Waiting For Everyman]

6. A dancing flash mob would've been perfect here.

A dancing flash mob of veterans, even better.

These cops are idiotic.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

7. If I had been there I would have started dancing

Even cuffed I'd be dancing as much as possible

[2pooped2pop]

21. I'm afraid I would have too. n/t

[2pooped2pop]

22. I think there should be one at that site daily.

different times of the day, but every single day.

[Kalidurga]

8. Whats next?

Arrests for dancing and barring the press from being there. Unfreaking believable. If it wasn't on tape wait it is on tape and I still have a hard time fathoming such a thing. We no longer have rights as citizens if we ever did perhaps it's been a delusion. In any case it is time for us to demand our first amendment rights now more than ever.

[Raksha]

9. Un-freakin-believable! They were arrested for insubordination, and not another damn thing!

It was ALL about whether the cop could impose his will on the demonstrators or not. And of course he couldn't...hell, I would have started dancing too! Those T-shirts should read "U.S. Thought Police" not "U.S. Park Police."

[reggie the dog]

10. what have they been charged with?

i have seen people dancing in parks many times in france IN FRONT OF the police and have never seen arrests

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. Krik vs. Boston. You CAN record police!

Unbelievable, just astonishing. Thank you for this video.

[ohheckyeah]

14. Maybe because they didn't want to spend the rest of

their lives in prison?

[reggie the dog]

17. now they are likely charged with assault of a police officer

will likely get jail for it, will likely lose their job and have a hard time getting hired in the future

i saw armed thugs disrupting otherwise peaceful people and in the usa the armed thugs often get convictions based upon lies.

how much do you want to bet that the protesters will get jail time for "assault on a police officer" and "resisting arrest"?

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. This was posted to youtube back in May. What was going on? Is there any backstory?

[TorchTheWitch]

19. yes, more info...

It was a protest demonstration. This is an interview Adam Kokesh did afterward (he's the guy the OP mentioned)...

Info on Adam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kokesh

Adam's "Adam vs. The Man" site: http://www.adamvstheman.com/


Hope that helps a bit.

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. Thank you!

[ohheckyeah]

15. When was this? n/t

[pinboy3niner]

16. May 29

If you click on the Youtube icon at bottom right of screen, the original post there has a bit more info than is provided here.

[T S Justly]

18. Fucking needle-juicing nazi scum. (nt)

[Quantess]

20. If this happened in May, what's the resurgence about now?

I saw this on facebook today as well.

[NYC_SKP]

24. I have no idea, it was stupid then and it's stupid now. Dancing idiots.

Defying police orders by dancing in the Jefferson Memorial (and additionally, selfishly, ruining the experience of the place for innocent tourists) has got to be THE most selfish stupid act of pointless faux-demonstrating seen in the year 2011.

Stupid asshats.

[NYC_SKP]

26. Allow me to add that if the RW, like Brietbart, wanted to make us progressives stupid...

They'd pull a stunt like this stupid jack-ass spoiled-brat bullshit prank at the Jefferson Memorial.

Going to a quiet solemn place like the Jefferson Memorial to bait police into this kind of behavior, that's a James O'Keefe move right there.

It's a pointless, in fact a counterproductive, act, and it's nothing to be proud of.

Adam Koresh, one of the instigators, is a self promoting talk show host.

I believe in actions that actually advance our causes, not asshattery disruptive childish behaviors designed to make middle class peace officers look stupid.

And that have the added stupidity of ruining what could be a one-in-a-lifetime trip to DC.

Do you care about any of that?