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.
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
Except resting arrest is not a standalone crime. It has been rules many times that resting arrest can only be used if they are resting a legal arrest action.
Now, it doesn’t stop cops from using it to remove someone from a location but the resisting arrest charge will always be dropped.
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.
You might eventually and with some great expense (even if you have a public defender, jail isn’t cheap for poor people), but you won’t beat the ride. They can and will destroy your life and livelihood with a trumped up charge for little more than knowing your rights. It doesn’t matter if the charge sticks, the injustice has been done and freedom has been trampled.
I do believe that that old, traditional folk song applies here.
Written by the troubadours O’Shea Jackson, Lorenzo Patterson, and Tracy Curry, it goes something like this:
Fuck the police, fuck fuck
Fuck the police, fuck fuck
Fuck the police, fuck the, fuck the
Fuck the police
Under the current circumstances they should consult Ice Cube’s metal band Bodycount for advice.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t striking become less violent and destructive because we all agreed to gentleman’s rules?
Rules the NYPD just broke?
They’re forgetting the lessons we all learned in the gilded age.
Bodies upon bodies
This is how the violence starts
Bodies upon bodies
With non-peaceful protests
Dead Flesh - Bodies Upon Bodies (Deathcore, very topical)
Man what’s going on with New York police lately
NYPD being corrupt as always.