Police said Yohenry Brito was disobeying a lawful order to disperse when an officer tried to arrest him, triggering a melee with nearly a dozen men. But footage released today shows he was walking away.
Is telling someone to “disperse” a lawful order? That’s news to me. Standing in public spaces is our legal right and can’t be deemed unlawful until we actually break the law. Then it’s a law enforcement issue as anything else. Otherwise the police could arbitrarily tell anyone to move with no reasonable articulable suspicion that any crime was afoot.
I think they get around it by making the arrest but then releasing them without charge, unless they could add a resisting arrest charge or something. Cop not liking you is an offense punishable by up to 72 hours in jail (and all the fallout that goes along with that).