Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Perris, CA — In the Land of the Free, if you do not pay the State before you attempt to sell a product or service to a willing customer, you can and will be extorted, kidnapped and caged, with extreme prejudice. A video published to Facebook this week shows a Perris police officer assault a woman who was selling flowers on the side of the road — because she apparently failed to pay the State for the privilege.
The video does not tell the entire story. However, it starts as the officer is grabbing a woman who is holding multiple sets of flowers, clearly arranged for sale on the roadside. So, based on the multiple instances previously covered by the Free Thought Project, we can assume that she was approached for the selling of flowers without a permit, especially considering the officers are not from ICE.
As the video begins, the motorcycle officer is grabbing the woman by the arm. The woman, who apparently doesn’t speak English, is clearly terrified.
Not wanting to be assaulted or otherwise extorted by the Perris police department, the woman pulled her arm back and tried to move away. She was still holding onto her flowers, indicating that she was in no way a threat to the officer.
However, as the woman attempted to move backward, away from the officer, he grabbed her by her hair and attacked her.
Within seconds, the officer had tripped the woman — who was still trying to protect her flowers as they likely cost her much needed money — and was on top of her.
The video is appalling as the cop kneels down on the woman and shoves his gloved hand over her mouth. The woman begins yelling out in Spanish as another cop joins in on the arrest — allegedly over flowers.
As the officers roll her over to place the handcuffs on her, we can see just how terrified the woman is, as she urinated on herself.
The Free Thought Project reached out to the Perry Police Department to ask them for a statement about this video. However, we have yet to hear back from them.
Some of the comments on the video below, are almost as disheartening as the video itself. Multiple people attempted to justify this assault and battery by claiming the woman should’ve had a permit.
Facebook user Chuck N. wrote:
taxes, it;s called getting a permit, pay taxes, oh and dont resist when officer gives you a ticket. Is that person even in the country legally?
Another FB user, Eady T, wrote:
Selling flowers without a vendor’s license is a crime. Petty but crime non the less. So is resisting arrest.
Sadly, Americans are being conditioned to think that in the land of the free, people are somehow morally wrong if they try to make a dollar without first being extorted by the state.
The bottom line is — in modern day police state, USA — exchanging goods and services is a crime unless the State gets their cut. We are told that this is for our safety and that we could all die if a brown woman sells flowers on the corner. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Morality does not equal reality — and the video below is more than enough evidence to prove this.
Here is the link to the Perris police department’s Facebook page, if you’d like to leave them a scathing but peaceful review.
Sadly, this is one of many incidents in which people trying to earn a few bucks have been attacked or otherwise kidnapped by police ‘protecting society.’
In May, the Alameda County Sheriff’s department posted a photo of a deputy arresting a man for selling fruits and vegetables on the roadside and attempted to justify the arrest. When people read the department’s justification, they lashed out — peacefully — to let them know what they were doing is wrong.
In June, a 38-year-old homeless man was attempting to earn some honest money by providing a much-desired service to the residents of Kennewick, Washington when he was threatened with extortion and arrest by the local police department, which effectively ended his enterprise. After the Kennewick Police Department threatened the homeless man and prevented him from making a living, they took to Facebook to shamelessly brag about it.
What’s wrong with asking a few questions, issue a ticket and move on?
I guess he had to show his buddy how tough he was.
He failed, not tough at all….
Actually quite the chicken shit….
Until the people of this nation rise up and put a stop to this domestic terrorism, it will not only continue, it will escalate more and more. These criminal gestapo thugs brutalize for the most trivial things. How much more will it take America?
Agreed. But for now, most (not all) Americans DESERVE this tyranny. Here’s why:
* They buy into the propaganda that the military protects, rather than seriously endangers, their rights and their freedom.
* They ignore or support police abuses of power as long as it doesn’t affect them personally, or their loved ones.
* Meanwhile, they proudly wear their “infidel” t-shirts and strut around the gun range, telling themselves they’ll be ready to defend freedom when those evil jihadis come to impose Sharia law! I.e., they have no clue who is already taking away their freedom and has every intention of taking even more.
In a word, most Americans are stupid, brainwashed, and suffering from Stockholm syndrome. It’s too bad the few of us who aren’t under this evil spell are being dragged along for the ride, mostly because we’re all so isolated from each other.
*** Some of the comments on the video below, are almost as disheartening as the video itself. Multiple people attempted to justify this assault and battery by claiming the woman should’ve had a permit.
Facebook user Chuck N. wrote:
taxes, it;s called getting a permit, pay taxes, oh and dont resist when officer gives you a ticket. Is that person even in the country legally?
Another FB user, Eady T, wrote:
Selling flowers without a vendor’s license is a crime. Petty but crime non the less. So is resisting arrest. ***
My contempt for slave-minded lickspittles like these knows no bounds. They WORSHIP politicians, bureaucrats, and their pig enforcers.
If tomorrow it were decreed that a permit would henceforth be required to breath air, drink water, or use the toilet, I have little doubt that these imbeciles would rush to get theirs so they could be in compliance with “the law.”
I have long said ‘the day is soon coming and for some already came, that every single person will have a very basic choice to make each day they leave their homes :
Obey your conscience and become a criminal, or obey the law and disregard your conscience ‘.
“My contempt for slave-minded lickspittles like these knows no bounds. They WORSHIP politicians, bureaucrats, and their pig enforcers.”
I avoid them like the plague.
“Sadly, Americans are being conditioned to think that in the land of the free, people are somehow morally wrong if they try to make a dollar without first being extorted by the state.”
Television ‘programming’ strikes again.
Stupid sheeple.
what the hell… Americans need permit to sell shit on the streets?? damn, you guys have it way worse than we do.
Paulyester, where do you hail from?