Watch in amazement as a woman is arrested for drawing “GOOD MORNING, NYPD” on a sidewalk… in chalk.

Originally found via oaksandroses:

My friend Ryan’s amazing, creative, wonderful, kind little sister Rachel attended the Occupy Wall Street protests in NYC, choosing to use chalk as her method of communicating her unhappiness with the current state of affairs. She was arrested, as you can see in this video, and was never read her Miranda Rights despite being questioned.  She was also ticketed for “damage to sidewalk”. All for using washable sidewalk chalk. This is getting pretty silly, guys.

Anyone care to tell me how this doesn’t look a bit “police-state-esque?”

She was drawing the sidewalk in chalk.

All this protesting must be hitting ‘em pretty close to the mark to get ‘em all riled up like that, huh?

(Source: piratekitten)