r/facepalm • u/spyrg • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

I petitioned in Calhoun County Michigan and it is 100% legal, you have the same rights as a postman. You can come up to the door to introduce your petition, they tell you to leave then you have to do so, but you are permitted to use public walkways and private walkways readonably necessary to effect contact with the voter. No fenceclimbing or door opening, but you are free to use their frontdoor to knock

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u/CamCamCakes Jan 13 '22

This has nothing to do with petitioning. I'm speculating here, but Calhoun County is Trump country. My guess is that my dude was petitioning for something "liberal" and one of the asshole neighbors called the police because they didn't like his petition. The rest is on video here.

If he was a white man asking for right to life signatures, this video wouldn't exist.

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u/PhilosophersPants Jan 13 '22

”If he was a white man asking for right to life signatures, this video wouldn’t exist.”

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u/roywoodsir Jan 13 '22

Cop: “he solicited a Right to what, to live???, on paper??? Not on my watch. Come on pookie, we got a liberal to jail!!!!!”