Arrested for cheering

[Will E Worm]

Arrested for Cheering at Her Daughter’s Graduation

Shannon Cooper says that moments after she cheered her daughter on as she received her diploma, she was handcuffed and arrested for disorderly conduct! Of the arrest, Cooper said, “I can’t fight the law. I can’t argue with the police. But I’m like, are you serious? I didn’t do anymore than the others [parents] did.”
The police say that there was an announcement before the ceremony began, making it clear that anyone who cheered or screamed would be escorted from the building.

The woman had to spend several hours at the detention center, so her daughter’s graduation plans were completely ruined.

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Welcome to the facist police state. :hatsoff:


We have to stop accepting things like this. If you love freedom that is.

 

[assari]

Welcome to the facist police state. :hatsoff:

A woman was arrested because she cheered?

Maybe the festival organizers interpreted the rules too strict.

 

[SabrinaDeep]

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Welcome to the facist police state. :hatsoff:


We have to stop accepting things like this. If you love freedom that is.

Why are you so surprised? It's America. Police have the freedom to arrest you for whatever they want and if you disagree they've got also the freedom to taser you. In the meantime, people occupy wallstreet and Hollywood actors protest in favor of the Dalai Lama and against a few tribal wars in Africa, all matters which obviously directly and greatly affect any American citizen's daylife and needs. I start thinking that they put something in food and drinks in the USA to sedate people and make them so stupid. I was in a Target's in LA a few weeks ago and after being clearly screwed for 5$ due to a not applied discount people around looked at me as if i was a zombie or unreal just because i was complaining and asking for my 5$ back.

 

[bobjustbob]

I don't know where it comes from but this a contingency of people that want some kind of power no matter where it comes from. Somehow the find places on school boards and in tenant associations. Someone at that school had the foresight put together an action plan. The impending threat of those people THAT WON'T STEP FOOT INTO THE FUCKING BUILDING EVER AGAIN.

There is a town in California that years back passed a law that you can be fines for smoking on your own property if another home owner can smell your smoke. Not just apartments or condos. Separate detached housing units. Nothing about grill smoke, just tobacco.

 

[Will E Worm]

A woman was arrested because she cheered?

Maybe the festival organizers interpreted the rules too strict.

It was a graduation, not a festival. The rules are unconstitutional. people just need to ignore them.

Why are you so surprised? It's America. Police have the freedom to arrest you for whatever they want and if you disagree they've got also the freedom to taser you. In the meantime, people occupy wallstreet and Hollywood actors protest in favor of the Dalai Lama and against a few tribal wars in Africa, all matters which obviously directly and greatly affect any American citizen's daylife and needs. I start thinking that they put something in food and drinks in the USA to sedate people and make them so stupid. I was in a Target's in LA a few weeks ago and after being clearly screwed for 5$ due to a not applied discount people around looked at me as if i was a zombie or unreal just because i was complaining and asking for my 5$ back.

Most people are apathetic. That has to stop.

Tasers have to go and the police have to understand they are civil servants.

 

[Will E Worm]

I don't know where it comes from but this a contingency of people that want some kind of power no matter where it comes from. Somehow the find places on school boards and in tenant associations. Someone at that school had the foresight put together an action plan. The impending threat of those people THAT WON'T STEP FOOT INTO THE FUCKING BUILDING EVER AGAIN.

There is a town in California that years back passed a law that you can be fines for smoking on your own property if another home owner can smell your smoke. Not just apartments or condos. Separate detached housing units. Nothing about grill smoke, just tobacco.

Those types need to be weeded out and never given any power.

California is messed up. If this country is about freedom and private property than you can smoke on your own property.

California needs to wake up and stop trampling people's rights.

 

[PlumpRump]

...There is a town in California that years back passed a law that you can be fines for smoking on your own property if another home owner can smell your smoke. Not just apartments or condos. Separate detached housing units. Nothing about grill smoke, just tobacco.

Rockiln California, a.k.a. Red Square. They actually turned away from that legislation after people eventually found out and pointed out that it just might, just maybe, juuuuust miiiiight be a minor violation of Constitutional property rights. Imagine that. Can't smoke in public/state parks, can't smoke on the beach, no smoking in buildings, no smoking within 20 feet of operable doors/windows of a business (regardless of the business' opinion)... There's a beach city about 5 miles west of where I live, where the entire city is "smoke free," and it is a ticketable offense to smoke anywhere in public. American fascism at its best. Smokers are such a discriminated class of people, and no one really seems to care, especially in California.

Not to derail, but I'm still waiting to see about Prop 29, and how much I'm going to have to be paying for cigarettes come October.

/Rant

 

[PirateKing]

Did she have a megaphone? I heard some mothers abuse megaphones.

 

[bobjustbob]

Those types need to be weeded out and never given any power..

You know how they could have avoided all of this? No graduation. Send the diplomas home with the final report cards. Save them money on caps, gowns, and police. No, these people will never be weeded out because it is the same hall monitors that get their support.

 

[Master Roshi]

and don't forget to watch out for those newly implemented "free speech" zones SMH

 

[bahodeme]

Yeah this is total BS. A parent or family member is happy that the child finishes High School and the officials are upset because someone yells out "That's my kid!"? I say remember who voted for this and remember them during elections.

 

[D-rock]

I'll agree that they went to far and an arrest was out of line.

However, I can also sympathize with people wanting to curtail excessive cheering at graduation ceremonies. One of the biggest problems is that it drowns out everything else that's being stated, like the next persons name in the roll call, and it's incredibly unfair to the person that comes afterwards and their own family and friends. It ruins that one moment in the life they will have of that for the person that comes after the child of the excessive cheerer. Essentially, the person cheering is choosing to put her child and family not only above everybody else in importance, but the importance of the entire process as well.

 

[bahodeme]

I think instead that asking the people in attendance to hold cheering and applause until the last name is called would have been better. There will one or two idiots that will do the opposite, but on the whole I think the people there would not had a problem with that.

 

[SabrinaDeep]

Essentially, the person cheering is choosing to put her child and family not only above everybody else in importance, but the importance of the entire process as well.

I don't see why my child shouldn't be above anybody else in importance.
Are you saying that getting my child graduated i shouldn't be happy and show him my happiness because this could hurt other kids or families?
Let people cheer however they want for God' sake!
Allow 1 min of cheering before calling next name: now this would be common sense, rather than arresting a mom for cheering at her kid graduating.

This mom spent at least 30,000 fucking dollars a year for tuition and fees: i think she can fucking buy a fucking 1 min of fucking cheering at her fucking child getting fucking graduated.

Sorry, i'm not upset with you D-rock, of course, but this kind of shit in general upsets me like no tomorrow.

 

[ThatRedWing]

Why does someone feel the need to cheer someone graduating from high school? It's not that big of an accomplishment. I could somewhat understand it if was the first one in the family to graduate college. Shut the fuck up, applaud politely and let everybody else have their day as well.

You can make as big of a deal as you want to at a graduation party/open house later on. Freedom of speech is one thing, but have some respect for the other graduates and the people around you.

 

[SabrinaDeep]

Why does someone feel the need to cheer someone graduating from high school? It's not that big of an accomplishment. I could somewhat understand it if was the first one in the family to graduate college. Shut the fuck up, applaud politely and let everybody else have their day as well.

You can make as big of a deal as you want to at a graduation party/open house later on. Freedom of speech is one thing, but have some respect for the other graduates and the people around you.

Careful to support arrest for alleged morons: i don't know anybody who has never acted like a moron at least once in their life and i'm pretty sure you, like me, make no exception.
"Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone", someone once said.

 

[D-rock]

I don't see why my child shouldn't be above anybody else in importance.
Are you saying that getting my child graduated i shouldn't be happy and show him my happiness because this could hurt other kids or families?

To be blunt, yes I think you shouldn't be allowed to put your child above anybody else in a situation like that when it adversely effects other people. Event's like that are not about one person. It's for everybody, and it's wrong for some to take that away from other people for one's own interest. It's the entire class' graduation and just so and so's. Sometimes in life people have to realize things aren't just about them.

Let people cheer however they want for God' sake!
Allow 1 min of cheering before calling next name: now this would be common sense, rather than arresting a mom for cheering at her kid graduating.

This mom spent at least 30,000 fucking dollars a year for tuition and fees: i think she can fucking buy a fucking 1 min of fucking cheering at her fucking child getting fucking graduated.

Sorry, i'm not upset with you D-rock, of course, but this kind of shit in general upsets me like no tomorrow.

Impractical. I remember at my graduation there might have been four or five seconds between each person's name being called, and for good reason. We had a relatively small class and the program still took hours to get through. Giving each person their own extended cheering time would have pushed the time it took to absurdity, and it would be unfair to the people that don't want to sit through it. There is no reason people can't celebrate afterwards on their own.

 

[ThatRedWing]

Careful to support arrest for alleged morons: i don't know anybody who has never acted like a moron at least once in their life and i'm pretty sure you, like me, make no exception.
"Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone", someone once said.

I never said that I supported arresting them. All I said was that they should have some respect for those around them. The daughter graduated from high school, she didn't win a Nobel Prize, she didn't win a Grammy, it's not that big of an accomplishment.

 

[SabrinaDeep]

Ok guys you win: legislate on people's happiness and feelings and feel free to arrest them if they don't comply.
I'm glad i left North America, if this is how you guys think over there, now.
Arresting people for cheering? Really? What's after that? Kissing in public? Greeting a friend loud from the other side of the street? Picking your nose?

 

[SabrinaDeep]

I never said that I supported arresting them. All I said was that they should have some respect for those around them. The daughter graduated from high school, she didn't win a Nobel Prize, she didn't win a Grammy, it's not that big of an accomplishment.

Do you really believe that winning a Grammy is a bigger accomplishment than getting graduated? What do you know on how big an accomplishment is for someone else? This is the problem. Society decides for you on what is huge and what is small? Well, this is wrong. Many people cannot afford the least of education and sacrifice their life and their everything for giving their children that minimum of education. Rest assured that seeing their child graduating is a huge accomplishment for them.