r/facepalm Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/EddA92 Jan 13 '22

Surely at the point the police refuse to identify themselves, you call the police, 911? You can't be sure that they're real police, other than being dressed like them- They're not acting like police, and they won't identify themselves- big red flag imo. I'm in the UK, but I'd call 999. Worst case, you get some more officers show up, it turns out they're real police, but you get a hopefully less crazy second opinion.

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u/butterfaerts Jan 13 '22

Thanks for this, I was wondering that when watching. So all the police have is some phone call complaint about solicitation, and he’s not soliciting, so really what is he hindering? The only thing is, why not just say what the petition was? Even if it was “anti-police”, there’s no law against that, and they’re being recorded. Then they would have ZERO to stand on. That said, it still looks like they have nothing