@ai6yr Amazing photo. I applaud her if she did this on purpose.
@aarbrk @ai6yr This was my first thought, too. But, imagine, if the cops knew exactly how this would look so they arrested her just for this picture to be taken! 😄
@fluchtkapsel @aarbrk I suspect she did this on purpose, lol.
@ai6yr excellent photo, this sums up everything
@ai6yr well, she must have something wrong or they wouldn’t have stopped her.
@carlmalamud @ai6yr if She wOulD JuSt obEy.

@apriloq @carlmalamud @ai6yr

Silly woman... perhaps she should have been at home, raising babies and cooking instead of being visible and part of an important movement to protect human rights and fight against the oligarchy and fascism in America... I guess that's what she did wrong: She was female, depicting feminine power and justice, in public....🤯

@carlmalamud
"Authorities said the crowd that gathered at the federal building later in the afternoon, as the rally was winding down, had ignored orders to disperse.

Officers forcibly removed a Los Angeles Times reporter and other journalists from the area, saying they were about to conduct “mass arrests.”

The demonstrators who remained were lined up outside the building as officers zip-tied their hands behind their backs and loaded them into vans. One was dressed as Lady Liberty, with a chain around her waist as part of her costume."

@ai6yr
The second I saw this at the protest, I knew she was going to be making some sites and papers.

@ai6yr

Looks likes a lot guys with nothing else to do and “checking” things out to me.

@ai6yr

Optics! lol

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr all those fresh billions and they can’t find room for a PR professional in the bearcat
@ai6yr It can be hard to tell the difference at first glance, but the real statue of liberty is 146 feet taller.

@ai6yr

Oh well. There goes another irony meter.

Alanis? You are needed for another verse.

@ai6yr "Y'aint welcome here, git back to NYC"
@Niall @ai6yr She’s French and she’s been here 139 years on a tourist visa
@standev @ai6yr dreadful!
@Niall @ai6yr my joke, the current state of affairs, our both?
@ai6yr A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
@ai6yr would be a real shame if that image went viral
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@ai6yr "during a 'King's Day' protest," they say.
@ai6yr Symbols. We don’t need no stinkin’ symbols.
@ai6yr I've wondered for a while what it is with US cops and zip ties, in the UK the cops have handcuffs. But then I realised, it's 'mass arrests' isn't it? We don't really do that. Sometimes the cops will go for those they identify as trouble makers in a crowd but they don't try to arrest everyone.
@pthane @ai6yr
In Europe the peaceful mass arrests seem more likely to be done without restraints. Just loading people on a bus and driving them somewhere to be processed and released.

@me_valentijn @pthane @ai6yr

It was like that in the US until what, Seattle IMF? When did we start with the zip ties?

She looks so otherworldly

@ai6yr

Looks like they've ziptied Lady Liberty.

#uspol #NoKings #protests

Bastards of the land of the UNFREE

@ai6yr

Active voice, no less.

@ai6yr
What. A. Picture.
Brave person too. 👍
@ai6yr 100% on-brand for the thugs. #ACAB
@ai6yr edit: looks like they've ziptied #Liberty
@ai6yr @dalias
That’s a Pulitzer winning photo there
@ai6yr Good costume choice. If you get arrested it will make a great photo.