Police cracked down on striking drivers in Queens who blocked deliveries.

From the article: In December 19 thousands of Amazon workers organizing with the Teamsters launched a cascade of unfair practice strikes from coast to coast at the logistics giant.

At the picket line in Queens, New York, police arrested and released Anthony Rosario, a Teamsters organizer, and Jogernsyn Cardenas, one of the striking workers, and then threatened mass arrests before breaking the line in two to allow vans through.

  • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    2 days ago

    The second arrest was of Anthony Rosario, Teamsters organizer and former UPS driver who was a leader in the 1997 UPS strike.

    Rosario says he and the workers were complying with police officers’ demand to let one truck through every two to three minutes. When police began trying to let more trucks through, he says, he “continued to walk, using my right … and you know, they just decided to arrest me.

    I’d love to see the charge

      • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        1 day ago

        It’s shocking how many people upvoted this incorrect information. You can’t ONLY be charged with resisting, you must be charged with an initial crime and then instructed that you’re being placed under arrest before you can be charged as having resisted. Cops try to act like it’s the opposite probably hundreds of times a day across the US, but it’s just one more lie among the rest they tell and it doesn’t hold in court.

        • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

          You might eventually and with some great expense (even if you have a public defender, jail isn’t cheap for poor people), but you won’t beat the ride. They can and will destroy your life and livelihood with a trumped up charge for little more than knowing your rights. It doesn’t matter if the charge sticks, the injustice has been done and freedom has been trampled.

          • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            1 day ago

            Definitely not always and a court appointed one will do, but yeah, this is another case where cops can arbitrarily ruin people’s lives and livelihoods.

            • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              Ruin lives = more extremists with nothing to lose.

              Im always scared of court system. Buddies dad went 6 months on 1st time Misdemeanor defending a women from SA. Judge said he felt no remorse. Like no sh#!.

      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 day ago

        Except resting arrest is not a standalone crime. It has been rules many times that resting arrest can only be used if they are resting a legal arrest action.

        Now, it doesn’t stop cops from using it to remove someone from a location but the resisting arrest charge will always be dropped.