Minneapolis will pay $165,000 to zombies
Asked to comment on the victory one of the zombies said, “braaaiiiiiins.”
In all seriousness, this is a good thing. The arrest was completely ridiculous. Who wants to live in a country where you can get arrested for dressing like a zombie?
I just glossed over a couple of articles about this and obviously missed it. WHAT THE FUCK were these “simulated weapons of mass destruction”???
From the WCCO story:
So pretty much the cops were just making shit up.
Sounds like the cops were full of it. Good for the zombies.
Now, if I were a zombie and I came into some extra cash, what would I spend it on? Bulletproof helmets…
People are forgetting the part about ‘four bags of sound amplification equipment’.
I have friends who work near there, and they said that these people were blasting their ‘music’ very loudly & obnoxiously. Seems like a pretty clear case of “disturbing the peace” – I don’t know why the City Attorney didn’t charge them with that.
<obligatory Simpsons quote>Zombie eat brains, but zombie cannot swallow this injustice! </obligatory Simpsons quote>
I was part of a zombie protest against Comcast once that got shown the way out of the parking lot by police - but we didn’t get arrested. Around here, zombie walks and protests are a little more accepted.
They were downtown on a saturday night. Is there a noise ordinance downtown on a saturday night?
The judge said there was no probable cause for arrest, so I don’t think the music could have been enough. It seems to me like the cops would have used that if they could, rather than contriving the ridiculous “simulated WMD” thing.
I’m just glad that they decided to protest “mindless” consumerism using an iPod instead of a Zune.
Well, in the defense of the police department, this is the MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT we’re talking about.
Oh wait, that’s not a defense, it’s the opposite of a defense.
The right to peaceably assemble is not conditional (other than the peaceable requirement, I suppose.) My guess would be that a protest against consumerism is seen as anti-merchant, and the merchants asked the police to round them up.
No, they’re just dicks.
Many of the merchants were closed at that time, so they didn’t care. And their “protest against consumerism” was so vague & inarticulate that most people didn’t know what it was about until that was reported by the news media on the following days.
Isn’t it great that being arrested for protesting often gets your message out to even more people? When will cops learn DNFTT?
I am relieved they were anti-consumerist zombies, rather than gay communist Muslim zombies.
What if they started to build a zombie mosque??!!
People have to remember not to conflate the vast majority of peace-loving anti-consumerist zombies with the extreme fanatical brains-eating terrorist zombies. This is a free country and we have to tolerant of all people, dead or undead. If we infringe upon the rights of moderate zombies, we’re only doing the fanatics a favor.
Well they may love peace, but anti-consumerist zombies want Americans to stop SHOPPING! That’s pretty much the definition of treason in this country.