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NYPD Arrests Workers During Historic Amazon Strike (inthesetimes.com)

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From the article: In December 19 thousands of Amazon workers organizing with the Teamsters launched a cascade of unfair practice strikes from coast to coast at the logistics giant.

At the picket line in Queens, New York, police arrested and released Anthony Rosario, a Teamsters organizer, and Jogernsyn Cardenas, one of the striking workers, and then threatened mass arrests before breaking the line in two to allow vans through.

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[-] Mojave@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago

The second arrest was of Anthony Rosario, Teamsters organizer and former UPS driver who was a leader in the 1997 UPS strike.

Rosario says he and the workers were complying with police officers’ demand to let one truck through every two to three minutes. When police began trying to let more trucks through, he says, he “continued to walk, using my right … and you know, they just decided to arrest me.

I'd love to see the charge

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 37 points 1 week ago

Resisting arrest. They don't need anything else

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

It's shocking how many people upvoted this incorrect information. You can't ONLY be charged with resisting, you must be charged with an initial crime and then instructed that you're being placed under arrest before you can be charged as having resisted. Cops try to act like it's the opposite probably hundreds of times a day across the US, but it's just one more lie among the rest they tell and it doesn't hold in court.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

I hope you don't need a lawyer for this to drop.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Definitely not always and a court appointed one will do, but yeah, this is another case where cops can arbitrarily ruin people's lives and livelihoods.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

Ruin lives = more extremists with nothing to lose.

Im always scared of court system. Buddies dad went 6 months on 1st time Misdemeanor defending a women from SA. Judge said he felt no remorse. Like no sh#!.

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