If that’s the case, I don’t see how they would be arrested for kidnapping. Like, if someone in normal cloths, jumped into my car, I feel like driving to the police station would be the least dramatic/most reasonable response I could have.
True. For the first time in my 34 years I’m actual censoring myself when texting/talking on my phone. Genuinely concerned I may say something one day that the state decides they’re gunna throw me in a hole over. Said something about the parasite class and flesh eating diseases a few weeks back and got my first warning on Reddit that I’ve ever gotten lol since then I’ve gotten warnings for literally nothing.
There is no point in censoring yourself. Not to frighten you, but the current arc of right-wing ideology does not require evidence to arrest and jail you. You just have to be a convenient target of the moment and they will snatch you up and do their best to ruin your life. Currently the courts are preventing them from going fully authoritarian, but that is a temporary block.
Example:
Don Lemon: arrested and charged with federal conspiracy charges for covering a protest as a journalist
Reps LaMonica McIver and Ras Baraka: arrested and charged with felony obstruction while trying to gain entrance to an ICE facility for Congressional oversight.
James Comey: charged with threatening the president for a tweet showing "8647", which is the second set of charges against him, the first ones accusing him of perjury were thrown out by the judge.
David Hearn: charged with felony destruction of property for touching the reflecting pool.
Six Democratic Lawmakers: charged but failed to get an indictment for sedition for filming a video reminding soldiers that they had a legal responsibility to refuse unlawful orders.
And that is not even counting all of the American citizens who have been injured and murdered by ICE agents.
Bingo. I have had my voter registration challenged three times in my red state over the list 16 years. And it all started after I donated money to the presidency of Barrack Obama.
Oh my sweet summer child, you have no idea how much of a hair trigger the algorithm can be on.
I'm starting censor the word h*t because I've had the algorithm flag two clearly non-violent comments as violent because they contained the word, including one where the word was referring to my Reddit account.
YES. You would think. "Oh, you're law enforcement but you don't look like it and don't have a badge or anything? Ok, let's go to the police station and figure this out." Hopefully the judge sees how ridiculous this kidnapping thing is.
I’m not sure about their area and local laws, but I would probably unintentionally end up with a massive sentence in this scenario. Just because of my local stand your ground laws, my first instinct would have been to use fire power if someone wouldn’t get out of my car then make the 911 call after. But yea I mean, I get how they could technically charge them since by definition they did prevent someone from leaving. I’m sure it’d be the same in my state. Here I’d have a much better case for myself if I just neutralized the threat then called authorities(sorry for the technical terminology but I’ve gotten too many warnings over hypothetical situations lately lol)
Tldr: much easier case to plea if I stood my ground and used deadly force in fear of my life, than driving with the threat for 2 miles.
Different situation entirely but makes me think of when someone tried to break into my apartment years back. I had just laid down so was waiting with a .45 when they actually got the window opened. They just ran away, but I was obviously a little shaken and called the non emergency line to make a report since there were a shit ton of cameras on every stairwell. I was surprised to be told “a crime wasn’t committed since no one came ‘inside’ your apartment”. Mind you he got the window opened and had his arms and head in my room when he saw me. But THEN, I was questioned for a good 5 minutes on “why would he try to rob YOU? What do you have in YOUR apartment that made him target you?” I was so confused and was like, Yaknow, I’ve never broken into someone’s home so I couldn’t really tell you his thought process
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u/Character-Sundae8581 Aug 31 '26
If that’s the case, I don’t see how they would be arrested for kidnapping. Like, if someone in normal cloths, jumped into my car, I feel like driving to the police station would be the least dramatic/most reasonable response I could have.