Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
The "arrest" was for "unauthorised demonstration in the memorial". The "detainment" (spending the weekend in jail) was for something about being too far away from the city to do a citation or something... which means they had to be kept till that could happen.

He knew the protocol, but didn't know the full specifics. It was a fair warning, I thought.
It was a fair warning. I think it's ludicrous that dancing is tantamount to demonstrating, and that warrants action, but they were given warnings. I'd like to see what was going on before the video cuts in. It seems like they were probably fully aware of what they were doing and were trying to engage the police because they didn't agree with it. Stupid move.

If they wanted to challenge the law they have other options. Pushing the boundaries of what they could get away with and then pulling a :0 face when things don't go their way makes them childish. These are adults acting like 14 year-olds.

Uh, did you not see the officer say "stop resisting, stop resisting" and the guy was just standing there holding his hands up? He freaking grabbed him by the neck and threw him down twice, once BY THE NECK. And they said they weren't protesting per se, they were just DANCING.
No, they were quite clearly resisting arrest. The douchebag in the white shirt didn't follow the instructions given to him and tried to go stiff or whatever, and the douchebag in the brown shirt was trying to keep the officer from cuffing him. Not to mention that chain-link bullshit he tried to pull. They reminded me of some of my worst-behaved students.

They were told that dancing was seen as a form of demonstration, and instead of doing anything intelligent about it they tried to be cute. They accomplished literally nothing of value and can't even say that excessive force was used because they resisted arrest in the most inane way possible.

Edit: To be clear, I disagree with the means, not the end.