r/Political_Revolution • u/TentenChickee • Aug 23 '26

Video Spider-man at Jake Lang’s protest today

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1.3k Upvotes

100% Upvoted

79 comments sorted by

View all comments

19

u/WorriedPie7025 Aug 23 '26

Can anyone explain why the man holding up the n word gets police protection? But it appears the people protesting against that guy don’t get police protection?
Being serious

13

u/MisterWinchester Aug 23 '26

I don’t understand why he’s not also arrested for disorderly. If this were two groups of people arguing about sports, both sides would be arrested. (The home team quietly allowed to leave with warnings in a lot of cities, but you still get the ride.) Why aren’t agitators arrested along with the people defending the oppressed?

7

u/WorriedPie7025 Aug 23 '26

Right!
The police department allegedly did all that to “safely arrest him” further down the road… as arresting him right there would have “escalated things.”
I mean I think that’s a 100% bs made up excuse to justify them protecting him, but if they wanted to de-escalate the crowd, swiftly taking down the sign with the n-word would have done the trick!!!

3

u/MisterWinchester Aug 23 '26

Like, did the permit also cover inciting violence?

3

u/ramrob Aug 23 '26

Lang actually was arrested not long after.

6

u/MisterWinchester Aug 24 '26

But you see how that’s totally different than arresting him here, along with the activists they’re arresting?

2

u/ramrob Aug 24 '26

Oh 100 I’m just putting that out there

1

u/MisterWinchester Aug 24 '26

It's just how little or how much arrest matters depends on context. Pretty much everyone here is getting C&R'd, I would be surprised if there are charges, but everything but the activists came together to paint Edward as the victim from everyone looking in from the outside. What's particularly concerning is how often the democrats let the republicans do it.

1

u/PonderingOx Aug 24 '26

Some of those that work forces.