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Sticking it to the man -- great; hitting passers-by with foam balls and laughing at them -- not so great.

by dthakur 16y ago

mustpax 16y ago
Rachner was wearing a faded t-shirt, jeans and leather jacket, and didn't remotely resemble the guy who misfired the ball, who wore English golfing duds, a Tattersall's hat and fake orange sideburns. Doesn't sound like he had much to do with the golfing incident, the police was just ID'ing everyone they came across, he just had the audacity to refuse to comply.
- pyre 16y ago
  It sounds like he was part of the 'urban golfing' group. He wasn't arrested for hitting the guy with the ball: Arrested instead, based on victim identification, was security researcher and computer cryptologist David Hulton of Seattle. The city attorney dropped the misdemeanor assault charge, but only after Hulton spent $2,500 on a lawyer. Hulton has joined Rachner in his project, helping to pay for attorney Stockmeyer's expenses, because he said, "I want to effect change." The guy that got hit by the ball also didn't seem to think it was as big of a deal as the police made it out to be: The sponge ball victim Gabriel Scott Clark, then a Seattle coffee house worker and now living in Miami, said he was surprised by the multiple arrests: "I didn't think it would be that big of an issue. I was just mad at the one guy." The police never even got the right guy: Marcus Johnson of Los Angeles apologetically admitted in an interview that he sliced the ball that hit the victim. Police never detained or identified him, but he and others said Johnson was "in the thick of things" when police arrived.
pyre 16y ago
> hitting passers-by with foam balls and laughing at them There's a difference between being an asshole and being an asshole cop -- a pretty big one.
InclinedPlane 16y ago
If you'd read the article you would have known that the accused who later "stuck it to the man" was not the person who committed the act which got police involved, he was just an innocent bystander who refused to compromise his rights. The person who caused the ruckus behind the trouble was never arrested.

Sticking it to the man -- great; hitting passers-by with foam balls and laughing at them -- not so great.

by dthakur 16y ago

Sticking it to the man -- great; hitting passers-by with foam balls and laughing at them -- not so great.

Rachner was wearing a faded t-shirt, jeans and leather jacket, and didn't remotely resemble the guy who misfired the ball, who wore English golfing duds, a Tattersall's hat and fake orange sideburns. Doesn't sound like he had much to do with the golfing incident, the police was just ID'ing everyone they came across, he just had the audacity to refuse to comply.

pyre 16y ago
It sounds like he was part of the 'urban golfing' group. He wasn't arrested for hitting the guy with the ball: Arrested instead, based on victim identification, was security researcher and computer cryptologist David Hulton of Seattle. The city attorney dropped the misdemeanor assault charge, but only after Hulton spent $2,500 on a lawyer. Hulton has joined Rachner in his project, helping to pay for attorney Stockmeyer's expenses, because he said, "I want to effect change." The guy that got hit by the ball also didn't seem to think it was as big of a deal as the police made it out to be: The sponge ball victim Gabriel Scott Clark, then a Seattle coffee house worker and now living in Miami, said he was surprised by the multiple arrests: "I didn't think it would be that big of an issue. I was just mad at the one guy." The police never even got the right guy: Marcus Johnson of Los Angeles apologetically admitted in an interview that he sliced the ball that hit the victim. Police never detained or identified him, but he and others said Johnson was "in the thick of things" when police arrived.

pyre 16y ago

> hitting passers-by with foam balls and laughing at them There's a difference between being an asshole and being an asshole cop -- a pretty big one.

InclinedPlane 16y ago

If you'd read the article you would have known that the accused who later "stuck it to the man" was not the person who committed the act which got police involved, he was just an innocent bystander who refused to compromise his rights. The person who caused the ruckus behind the trouble was never arrested.