Police: Mock us in Cartoons, go to Prison
A valid possibility, which speaks strongly in favor of anonymous speech still being important.Some believe that the police merely are trying to use the guise of charges to obtain the suspect's name in order to harass him outside the courts.One of the few defenses society has against this kind of abuse is the Streisand effect - their attempts to suppress this kind of speech only make it have more effect. Because of that I'm all for giving this kind of story more exposure.
Yeah. This is police harassment, plain and simple. Piggies!
Also: http://www.kingcounty.gov/courts/SuperiorCourt/judges/cayce....
Oh, man... if the Renton police thought they were getting mocked before, they are unprepared for what's coming.
Edit: And the department isn't even named in the videos! Hilarious!
425-430-7500 option 8 is the number for the police department in question. I think that people tend to act differently if they know they are being watched so I called and talked to the person who answered to (a) confirm the story and (b) express my concerns about the abuse of power.
well, at least they didn't do that to him
From the article: "illicit relations between a female cop and a police officer"
...are female cops not police officers? Are police officers never female? I hope I'm missing some detail in terminology because this smacks of sexism on the part of the author.
Someone should schedule Mock-A-Cop day on facebook to celebrate satire.
This is why we defended Lori Drew's right to free speech after her cyber bullying of Megan Meiers
Cops are legal terrorists.
Also submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849372
May a thousand parody videos bloom in response!
"Respect mah authori-tah!"