• Linktank@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    No reason not to believe the person who “wants to be arrested” and is lighting fires in public spaces?

    Who are you trying to convince?

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      7 days ago

      He was saying there’s reason to believe they thought this would be a high profile, non-violent action that would get them attention as well as arrested. I.e., that the arrest and attention were the primary motivations moreso than a political one. It was just a standard, blue USPS post box, not a specific county ballot box (those actually have fire suppression for this reason), so it seems reasonable that this person is just an unstable idiot, not a politically motivated unstable idiot.

      He was previously arrested for just showing up to a work site, assumed homeless, and sitting there, and then trying to take an officers gun “because he ‘wanted it’ and ‘because it’s cool.’” He was then restrained with duct tape. Lol

      Who knows, it’s dumb and he was arrested though, which is good.

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        Now I have to look up the circumstances for being restrained with duct tape