[psidebot]

The article definitely misrepresents what's in the video. He wasn't arrested for speaking 5 seconds over. He was standing right in front of the councilors shuffling papers back and forth for nearly a minute while the crowd was screaming and clapping. Officers asked him to leave, then told him to leave multiple times he categorically refused, all while public order was progressively deteriorating.

[firesteelrain]

Similarly my Sheriff said during COVID that he would not arrest people protesting once they enter a government building but would arrest anyone obstructing outside the Government building. This seems State specific. The man shouldn’t have been arrested.

[cranky908canuck]

If you google "farmer name activist" the results light up like a christmas tree. (Where the actual name is substituted in, of course.)

Regardless of the merits of the actual issue being protested, presenting this as "poor innocent farmer arrested for going five seconds over" doesn't seem accurate.

I previously observed that of course getting arrested wasn't something he would have planned...

OTOH, given that this is the second time the "five seconds over" story has been posted to HN, seems like somebody is leveraging the 'Streisand Effect'.

[rekabis]

Square brackets more clearly indicate that the word is both placeholder and a description of the kind of placeholder in question:

> If you google "farmer [name] activist"

[shimman]

Oh I guess that makes it okay to arrest a person exercising their human rights. Wouldn't want to upset the "public order" (whose order are we talking about here because the public seems to be on the person's side).

[gruez]

>Oh I guess that makes it okay to arrest a person exercising their human rights.

How do you think public hearings are supposed to work if you have hoards of hecklers exercising their "human rights" by disrupting the meeting?

[edave64]

Does that somehow not make the headline misleading? Becase that's what that comment said, not that the arrest was ok and warranted.