• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Most protest arrests in the US are released the same day or the next day. Nobody looking to make a movement is getting taken off the board.

    Of course the people in power do keep trying to change that. But as of yet, they’ve been unsuccessful.

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      8 months ago

      While they are released it assists the police with intelligence gathering. In the UK police are known for giving bail conditions like “you can’t meet within more than 4 people”

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        8 months ago

        Yeah they’ve been doing that for so long the American first amendment includes the right to “peaceably assemble”. And I should be clear these arrests are absolutely a breach of our rights. In the US it would be unthinkable for someone carrying a gun to be arrested without provocation.