From the article: In December 19 thousands of Amazon workers organizing with the Teamsters launched a cascade of unfair practice strikes from coast to coast at the logistics giant.

At the picket line in Queens, New York, police arrested and released Anthony Rosario, a Teamsters organizer, and Jogernsyn Cardenas, one of the striking workers, and then threatened mass arrests before breaking the line in two to allow vans through.

  • @Maggoty
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    1691 month ago

    Someone correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t striking become less violent and destructive because we all agreed to gentleman’s rules?

    Rules the NYPD just broke?

    They’re forgetting the lessons we all learned in the gilded age.

  • southsamurai
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    1281 month ago

    I do believe that that old, traditional folk song applies here.

    Written by the troubadours O’Shea Jackson, Lorenzo Patterson, and Tracy Curry, it goes something like this:

    Fuck the police, fuck fuck
    Fuck the police, fuck fuck
    Fuck the police, fuck the, fuck the
    Fuck the police

  • @Mojave
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    961 month ago

    The second arrest was of Anthony Rosario, Teamsters organizer and former UPS driver who was a leader in the 1997 UPS strike.

    Rosario says he and the workers were complying with police officers’ demand to let one truck through every two to three minutes. When police began trying to let more trucks through, he says, he “continued to walk, using my right … and you know, they just decided to arrest me.

    I’d love to see the charge

      • slazer2au
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        41 month ago

        Except resting arrest is not a standalone crime. It has been rules many times that resting arrest can only be used if they are resting a legal arrest action.

        Now, it doesn’t stop cops from using it to remove someone from a location but the resisting arrest charge will always be dropped.

    • @Limonene
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      631 month ago

      The cops are class traitors.

      • @PunnyName
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        411 month ago

        Nah, human traitors. Started as slave patrols, never had a redemption.

        • @Pieisawesome
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          11 month ago

          More likely started as firewatch or night watchmen in Europe

          • @Glytch
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            81 month ago

            Modern police (at least in America) are much more related to slave catchers than they are town watch.

          • madjo
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            11 month ago

            It’s five to midnight and all’s not well!

      • sunzu2
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        201 month ago

        I don’t get it…

        It only makes sense to bootlick if you get rewared for it but some how we got majority of America doing it.

        They got woke to the culture wars but never to the class 🤡

        • @Brickhead92
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          61 month ago

          But to them, they are rewarded. They get to beat and even kill minorities and poor people without consequences.

        • @TargaryenTKE
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          51 month ago

          That’s what happens when (at least) half of the country exclusively gets their news from one corrupt source

          • sunzu2
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            61 month ago

            Bootlickers are heavy on both sides…

            But sure the red is more likely to bootlick due to daddy worship ideology

            • @TargaryenTKE
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              41 month ago

              That’s fair. I cringe every time I hear my firmly-Democrat-voting family try to defend the establishment because they’ve watched Law & Order for several hours, every week, for at LEAST the last 30 years