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So this cop was not a GG Allin fan?
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This is where you need a principled and knowledgable prosecutor who, as soon as he hears about this arrest, immediately refuses to actually pursue the charges and orders the release of the person. The linked article from the local tv station was nuts in that it didn’t question the legitimacy of this arrest at all. They seem to think this is totally reasonable. Does anyone working for that tv station actually have a journalism degree?
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Seems to me that micturition rites have been given to the dead for as long as people have been dying. The Illiad and the Odyessy may be the first modern/ ancient mentioning of it by Homer. Now considered not to be civilized, it begs for explanation as to why not? A bunch of US Marines got in trouble a few years back for whizzing on a Taliban dead. I just don’t get it. My failure to understand the real meaning of why it is no longer acceptable is somehow a moral and ethical breech of standards? The dead will certainly not feel it, someone in a grave six feet down is somehow going to get "moistened "? A gravestone is getting more rapidly eroded away to stone dust because of urine?
…“When you’re dead, your a dead peckerhead”, as John Prine reminds us in one of his very last songs…
Besides, this alleged crime was a freakin Photoshop. Therefore, NOT a crime, at all. Free speech, artistic license !!
No real harm, no real foul!
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Uh, Podunk, Tennessee? Home of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
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I thought you were going to go with the “break your tail light” reference. I’m not proud that I remember a scene from the movie Porky’s, but I do, and it was a shitty corrupt small town cop harassing a bunch of shitty small town dude-bros (but the dude-bros were the sympathetic characters in the movie). That movie was often on in the background of my childhood. Why, parents? Why?!?
Makes me wonder how the cop scenes from that movie would go over today…
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Holy carpaccio batman, will Jane Wong’s work never cease?
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Yes, but will he prevail in wrongful arrest and first amendment countercharges?
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Guy thinks cops are a buncha dicks.
Cops prove his point for him.
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Hopefully, that to be followed by the another photoshop going out… one with the police chief’s face on it.
No, I’m saying there is no reason to suppose the circumstances of the cop’s death have anything to do with it. Pissing on someone’s grave is generally a comment on their life, not their death (whatever the merits of that comment).
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A woman is Scranton PA. was arrested for cursing at her toilet after it overflowed .She was in her own house and was charged with disorderly conduct. That whiz bang piece of police work cost the city of Scranton $25,000 dollars. This bill will be much higher, way way higher
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If it is, then @beschizza will probably be avoiding Tennessee 
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So, I recently watched this movie again, and can tell you with certainty that absolutely nothing about the movie has aged well.
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Wow, I thought I must be misunderstanding your comment, but nope.
Turns out arrests for cussing, while illegal, are relatively common in PA (last paragraph).
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The false equivalency here is really dangerous. Maybe the shitposter is an “asshole,” but there is no equivalency between him and his actions and those of either the person who murdered the cop or the police who arrested the poster for the supposedly disrespectful post. Cops don’t get to arrest people because they feel insulted or disrespected, period. In a democratic society, we are not required to “respect the police,” that is the behavior demanded in authoritarian societies. I don’t care if you consider the guy an asshole, because being an asshole is not, in and of itself, a crime.
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Talk about a false equivalancy, calling a false equivalancy “dangerous”
It’s a question of power, which you are conveniently ignoring. The photoshopper might be an asshole, but he has no power. He made an image and he shared it, which was the limit of his actions. The police arrested and detained him, and, as we all know from recent experience, could have done a great deal more. If you argue that they are both assholes, fine. But one asshole, the cop, has legal and social power the other guy could only dream of. Had he resisted arrest and been beaten or killed, would you argue he deserved it because he’s an asshole? One asshole takes on another, and you say, fine with me? Yes, the false equivalency is dangerous.
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Well I never made an equivalency. Saying two people are assholes doesn’t make an equivalency.
I think everyone here is fully aware that there is a power difference, and it’s a point far too mundane to even have to address. The whole point of the BoingBoing post was to point out that the cops were abusing their power, and everyone gets that.
Saying that the photoshoppers were assholes too just points that out, nothing more. Sometimes people who are victims of government overreach are also assholes.
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