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Team Robespierre show shut down by cops w/ batons
the venue (Market Hotel) is a private home/work space for 8 artists. they occassionally open up the space to plays, concerts, art shows, and whatever. sure, it may have violated several codes and ordinances, but this was a benefit show for the publication Showpaper. See the poster/flyer in the previous post.
ToddP had asked on his site for attendees to play nice. in toddp-speak:
But the night didn’t go right. This from suckapants:
“…it got shut down by some aggro undercover cops with their metal batons and handcuffs. Now I understand that cops have a shitty job, one where it can literally be said that everyone is out to get you. BUT fuck cops who make everything worse (for themselves as well) by being overly violent and aggressive. That shit throws every piece of sympathy anyone might have for your crappy job right out the window. Put your baton away, take the handcuffs off the scared barely legal kid. There are less than 50 people here, and most of them are just trying to get out of the way. I know you had your training drilled into your head at the academy that everyone is a threat, but again, fuck you. Chill out. Do your job and issue summons and move on with your night. No one is going to give you an excuse to crack their face open here, we are too smart for that. Being an asshole isn’t going to make anyone any safer. In fact, take a look at your 7 other comrades. None of them have their weapons out, they aren’t handcuffing everything that flinches. You’re making your fellow boys-n-blue look bad.”
He did get a chance to see, and photograph, The Vivian Girls.By midday today ToddP posted an update about the incident and about the status of the Friday and Saturday shows at Market Hotel:
And then later in the day, this update:
Such are the affairs of our favorite “alt-location guru.”
