My Occupy LA Arrest, by Family Guy writer Patrick Meighan

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

While they sit in a park imagining they represent the 99%, they watch 90% of the 99 pass by on the way to work each weekday.

You mean like Patrick Meighan is unemployed?

You didn't even bother to read the article, I'll guess. You don't have to, when your mind is already made up.

At 9 a.m. we were finally taken from the pavement into the station to be processed. The charge was sitting in the park after the police said not to. It’s a misdemeanor. Almost always, for a misdemeanor, the police just give you a ticket and let you go. It costs you a couple hundred dollars. Apparently, that’s what happened with most every other misdemeanor arrest in LA that day.

With us Occupy LA protestors, however, they set bail at $5,000 and booked us into jail. Almost none of the protesters could afford to bail themselves out. I’m lucky and I could afford it, except the LAPD spent all day refusing to actually *accept* the bail they set. If you were an accused murderer or a rapist in LAPD custody that day, you could bail yourself right out and be back on the street, no problem. But if you were a nonviolent Occupy LA protestor with bail money in hand, you were held long into the following morning, with absolutely no access to a lawyer.

God help this country, when the Bush sheep say that police fascism and brutality are justified.