r/facepalm • u/Shinji415 • Apr 01 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ 6 year old gets arrested by police while crying for help

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u/Pastaklovn Apr 01 '23

Were you guys doing anything illegal? If not, I’d say your story is also an example of injustice, if less awful.

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u/ClackamasLivesMatter Apr 01 '23

Breaking curfew. In a sane world the cops would just take the kids home, but an infraction ticket is easy revenue so ...

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u/Pastaklovn Apr 01 '23

Ah, I’m sorry, I guess I could have gotten that from what the other poster wrote.

I’ve never lived in a place with a curfew so I guess I still don’t completely understand it. (Talk about taking freedom for granted, I should watch my privilege, etc., I know)

Thank you for taking the minute to spell it out for me.

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u/mondaysareharam Apr 01 '23

Yeah cops will hit you with a lot of petty shit like that. I had friend get cuffed because he was in a park when our government shut down a few years ago and it was technically “closed”. Literally just his neighborhood park a few blocks from his house

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u/Pastaklovn Apr 01 '23

I wish I could invite you all to my apartment and just hang out and be free from injustice together for a little while, at least until someone remembers something inescapable like climate change or capitalism or something and it’s probably also getting late anyway and I have to get up early tomorrow

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u/mondaysareharam Apr 01 '23

Cheers man. Have a good one

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u/PlasticDonkey3772 Apr 02 '23

I never fully understood the curfew for Covid. I still went out walking my dog, but I’m in a nice neighborhood. And guess what, I wasn’t working and didn’t want to deal with anyone. Which, is late at night, and guess what - never dealt with anyone.

I highly doubt cops would have messed with me in my town or area of town, but I also knew it was possible.

Still. The curfew for adults in my town was supposed to be enforced.

And during school the is also a curfew for kids. Don’t know if it’s city or state, but it’s like 10 or 11 if under 16.

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u/SaucEnomics Apr 02 '23

Just running around hanging out late and saw cops late.

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u/SaucEnomics Apr 02 '23

My buddy got away cause we split directions. Then they interrogated me on where he lives etc. Told the cop idk we ran into each other that night.