The Atlantic Wire has done a nice infotainment piece on recent Occupy Wall Street arrests, documenting charges that range from outrageous to just plain weird. The most frivolous charge? Wearing a mask in public. The most heinous? Lynching: An Occupy protester in Los Angeles got hit with lynching charges earlier this month, as did a group in Oakland on Dec. 30. But not for trying to hang anyone, as the term implies. … In this case, 30-year-old Sergio Ballesteros got charged with lynching for trying to stop police from arresting a drummer during a protest in Los Angeles. In the discussion threads below the Atlantic Wire’s piece, commenters describe arrests for writing on the sidewalk with chalk and cleaning the sidewalk with a broom.
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The Atlantic Wire has done a nice infotainment piece on recent Occupy Wall Street arrests, documenting charges that range from outrageous to just plain weird.

The most frivolous charge? Wearing a mask in public. The most heinous? Lynching:

An Occupy protester in Los Angeles got hit with lynching charges earlier this month, as did a group in Oakland on Dec. 30. But not for trying to hang anyone, as the term implies. … In this case, 30-year-old Sergio Ballesteros got charged with lynching for trying to stop police from arresting a drummer during a protest in Los Angeles.

In the discussion threads below the Atlantic Wire’s piece, commenters describe arrests for writing on the sidewalk with chalk and cleaning the sidewalk with a broom.

Source: topix.com

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