[fanatic2pope]

I wonder how far we are away from people being arrested for holding up blank pieces of paper.

[dgellow]

Happened in 2023 in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_paper_protest

[graemep]

The UK case involved him being "lead away" by police and "detained" when he returned and spoke so not really an arrest for holding up a blank piece of paper. Not good by any means, but not quite "for holding up a blank piece of paper". The other UK case was about a threat of arrest if he wrote on the paper - that is under the law that bans protests in Parliament Square. Again, not good, but not for holding up a blank piece of paper.

[dgellow]

I thought detainment was a lighter kind of arrest. Seems that I’m wrong and they are distinct concepts (I’m not too familiar with the English terminology here, my bad)

[skeledrew]

When someone is detained, they're just a person of interest wanted for questioning. When they're arrested, it's because they've actually been charged for something.

[iAMkenough]

In the U.S. you can be “detained” for days or weeks for having brown skin.

It’s called a Kavanaugh Stop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanaugh_stop

[mrhottakes]

The facts in your link contradict your post

[trelane]

Or praying silently to yourself in a No Praying Zone!

[reactordev]

I mean, if we are going to go after people for their tweets and posts, there’s a social network that needs crawling…