That girl was no criminal. She is a suspect.

Police have uniforms for a reason. They have highly identifiable police vehicles for the same reason: so that we know they are the police. A bunch of dudes in shorts and polos jumping out of a Kia Sedona could BE ANYBODY.

Such a horrible known criminal... who was later released with a desk ticket.

Even if I were unequivocally guilty of vandalism, I would not expect a squad of armed white dudes in t-shirts and shorts to drive by and snatch me off the street. Police officers were uniforms for a reason. 

How do we know she’s a criminal? As far as I can tell, she has not, as of yet, been convicted of any crimes. That would make her a SUSPECT, not a criminal.

Fuck off. Plain clothes dudes grabbing and shoving a woman off the street who was minding her own business, into an unmarked van, LOOKS LIKE kidnapping because that it what it is. Just becuase they have a legal motivation behind their actions doesn’t change what they actually did in broad daylight. If you saw this…

That’s fine, send some uniforms around to their house, or send some uniforms over to arrest ‘em. That’s what the uniforms are for.

tell me about how important the constitution is to you

You should have stopped at: “Look, grabbing people and putting them in unmarked cars is not ok, and should be illegal.”

No, this is a kidnapping, it just happens that the kidnappers will face no legal repercussions for their criminal behavior.

Here is a crazy idea. If police want to police protests, they must do it in full uniform with full badge number visible if they want to have the privileges that come with being the police. If you want to arrest someone, you get to do it under the scrutiny of the public. If you need to defend yourself with force, you…

What’s the difference between kidnapping and an arrest by unidentified police officers in an unmarked car who don’t announce themselves and don’t read the suspect their rights?

You don’t have a problem with the Secret Police nabbing people off the street in a way that is totally comparable to a kidnapping?

So if some hyper-aggressive men in civilian clothing ran up, surrounded you, and forced you into an unmarked vehicle, you’d be cool with that?

Plain clothes, running up and snatching someone without clear establishment of what authority you are representing is not how we as Americans accept an arrest. This person was not a violent extremist or anything that would require a tactic of this level. Nor would would we arrest someone who did meet that level in…

Which is why it’s important to make your voice heard in November.

Reverse: Double my salary and pay all my expenses (rent, utilities, moving) going to, from and living in the new town, and I’d do it.

god damn it sucks watching other countries slowly getting back to normal while we just shoot ourselves in the foot over and over and over

Yeah, I don’t get the people whining about the emissions credits: It’s a real source of revenue. When planning their spending, Tesla would know the emissions credits revenue was coming.

Cue all the usual suspects chanting: “Fake numbers!” & “Accounting fraud!”.