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Thursday, 11 January 2007

Felipe Fernandez Armesto jailed for jaywalking in Atlanta, U.S.

Idiot cops.

"Police say a British historian was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and jailed because he refused to obey a uniformed officer's order to use a crosswalk and wouldn't show identification.

The historian says he had no idea the upset young man was a police officer.

``Where I'm from, you don't associate young gentlemen in bomber jackets with the police. But he was extremely upset I had questioned his bona fides,'' said the historian, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, a professor at Tufts University in Massachusetts and expert on colonial history."

Article in the Sydney Morning Herald

Article in the Guardian

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