Baton Rouge: Homeowner invites protestors, cops barge in and arrest them for future crimes
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/baton-rouge-cops-barge-into-womans-yard-to-arrest-black-lives-matter-protesters-she-invited/A Baton Rouge homeowner invited Black Lives Matter protesters to have a rally on her property — but that didn’t stop cops from arresting dozens of them.
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The protesters had been peacefully protesting on her property for around 90 minutes, The Daily Beast reports, when officers in riot gear started moving in. At this point, protesters started yelling at the officers that they were trespassing on private property.
The police justified their aggressive behavior by claiming that protesters had been planning to march down to the highway and form a blockade. The police decided to preempt this action by blocking off the interstate ramps themselves, local news station WWLV reports.
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The protesters will be released, no charges filed. They didn't break any laws and no DA is going to bring charges. Resources (tax payer money) wasted in this fruitless exercise. But the HO has an excellent basis for filing a lawsuit. WELL, as far as the police TRESPASSING, State laws give law enforcement officers exemptions from certain criminal laws if it is necessary to violate them in the process of doing their jobs. Would love to see this case go before a court, challenge the exemption here. If the protesters hadn't broken any laws, were invited on to private property, there was no legal excuse for the police to trespass. They were not carrying out a legitimate duty. 
This wasn't a simple mistake, however. Most police know the law. They violate it all the time because when that happens, it is hardly challenged by anyone except by the victim in a civil court. If the victim wins their case....HO HUM. The tax payer foots the bill, the police department is off the hook, hardly ever held responsible for reigning in police officers who knowingly violate laws.
They will be conspiring to block grocery store entrances with their next cookie sale.
(Is there really a difference here?
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Are people getting arrested for pre crime? How is this constitutional? 
(who probably were the same ones who mocked a young woman who had been raped by her father)
Not Quite Singing Kumbayah
Baton Rouge Thought Cops Killing Black People Was Hilarious Until Now
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It's funny because don't you have a sense of humor?
You’ll be astonished to learn the shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, took place in a community that was not entirely free of racial stresses. Yes, really, even though racism is officially over. So please keep in mind that while some hotheads may consider some of what we discuss here examples of “racial conflict,” that is only because you are a liberal racist who sees racism everywhere.
Still, there are probably some people who might find February’s Mardi Gras parade, known in Baton Rouge as the Spanish Town Parade, a tad problematic, seeing as how it featured some hilarious jokes about cops killing black people, like the big “Pink Lives Matter” float pictured above and below. You see, it was a funny little play on the “black lives matter” movement, only it featured a photo of a cop shooting a flamingo, the parade’s mascot. But it’s OK, you see, because the Spanish Town Parade is famous for its outrageous humor. Besides, there were no racist images, just pictures of flamingos getting abused by police. Totally different!
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Flamingo float
The back of the float featured amusing bird jokes (and that’s all they were, you hater), like an invitation to join “the Million Perp March” with “Louis Fair Hawk Khan,” “Wings Up, Don’t Shoot!” and something about “Freddie Gray Goose,” although we can’t find a copy of what’s written underneath:
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Flamingo float 4
Then there was another float featuring this amusing image of a flamingo being beaten with police nightsticks, wearing a sign reading “I can’t breathe.” You know, like that guy who had to die for selling loose cigarettes. It, too, is only a joke:
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flamingo float 3
Oh, and also some guys waved Confederate flags, because Mardi Gras is all about venerating Heritage.
Now, while the people who made the floats and signs no doubt thought they were really a “hoot” — another bird joke! — not everyone in Baton Rouge has a jolly sense of humor about the topic of cops killing black men; one local blogger labeled the floats “a piss poor parade.” She noted,
Parades are public events, for public enjoyment. The ENTIRE public. If Spanish Town was for “whites only”, someone should have posted a sign. I’m sure some residents still have a sign or two stored, just in case … I shouldn’t have had to look at the black children around me and wonder if they recognized what they were seeing. I shouldn’t have had to feel like an outsider in my hometown.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/603771/baton-rouge-thought-cops-killing-black-people-was-hilarious-until-now#MI78YV7WgGwOoP7r.99
