Man Arrested for Refusing to Tweet at Crowd

[zak_mckraken]

Err... oops. Wrong post.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Truth stranger than fiction!

 

[fatedtodie]

Is it just me or is it funny the Police Officer's name is Kevin Smith in a situation like this?

 

[Maxor127]

I swear do 90% of you have no reading comprehension skills at all? I don't know who this musician is, but he wasn't arrested and was never threatened to be arrested. It was record executive. The police gave him a simple request and he didn't do it. End of story. And if that same record executive "tweeted" (I really hate that word) that the kid was there signing autographs when he wasn't, then he deserved being arrested even more. The fact that the kid or someone tried to tweet themselves to disperse the crowd is beside the point. And seriously, the people on this site are going to feel sorry for a record executive who thinks he's above the police?

 

[guruofchem]

I hear Scott Baio arrived a few minutes later and cleared that crowd right up...

 

[guruofchem]

I do worry for my own non-incarcerated state if I can be arrested for not being a Twit...wait, that's not what you call a person using Twitter...?

Seriously, though, how can an artist not even at the venue be held responsible for the behavior of the crowd inside?

 

[Onyx2291]

Woooow... Just wow..

 

[adillhoff]

Twitter matters...

 

[fracture]

It's not like everyone there is on Twitter. Nor will they pay attention to their phone at that time.

 

[wifiwolf]

I'm no lawyer but I think the only way this is sustained is if they have advertised the show on tweeter than they had to cancel it on tweeter too when requested.

 

[james_8970]

The police are obviously looking for a scapegoat on this one.

The idiocy is immense in this one. Justin is from Canada, the police in this article are not. People don't arrested for things like this in Canada (thank god). Luckily your justice system will toss this out, because police were just abusing their power here. Anyone ought to know that a 'tweet' isn't going to do much to disperse a crowd of crazy teenage girls.

 

[james_8970]

Urg, why did I quote that...... the idiocy in me seems to be great as well. I was supposed to quote the guy that did the stupid megaphone comment. FAIL

 

[r0x0r]

[citation][nom]guruofchem[/nom]I do worry for my own non-incarcerated state if I can be arrested for not being a Twit...wait, that's not what you call a person using Twitter...?[/citation]

Twitter users are called "Twats".

Twitter is also that bit of skin between the twat and the shi**er, hence "Twitter".

 

[Guest]

He needs to just sue the police department like everyone else is doing for randmom violations of people's rights and false arrests. Eventually police will figure out they DO have a set of rules they have to follow also.

 

[sylvia648]

He'll have a good lawyer and the cops fail as usual. Nothing new.

 

[cyb34]

I am paying you to keep things in order. You want me to do your job?

 

[anamaniac]

Pure junk. I hope a judge charges these cops with harassment.

 

[hixbot]

[citation][nom]fatedtodie[/nom]Is it just me or is it funny the Police Officer's name is Kevin Smith in a situation like this?[/citation]
Heheh mall rats...

 

[Regulas]

More cops on power trips.

 

[eccentric909]

[citation][nom]Antilycus[/nom]The police have no right to tell me what to do. [/citation]

They do have a right to tell you what to do, as long as it's not incriminating, or beyond a fair and reasonable request. I don't think the cops were asking him too much, nor do I think it was really arrestable. The part that makes me pause to think is that the executive who was arrested did indeed egg the fans on by "tweeting" them that Justin was there signing autographs, when he clearly wasn't, which probably made the situation a hell of a lot worse.

But who knows how this'll go, hopefully it's thrown out, but you never know.