cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57909957
“I’m serious as a heart attack,” he tells Gamble when the audio begins to play on the 14-minute body camera video. “I’m not gonna sit here and argue with you.”
He demands to know how she could possibly justify such an obscene display: “I would like to hear how you would explain to my children what you’re supposed to be.”
Talking to a colleague over his two-way radio after the encounter, Babb described what happened. Gamble was dressed “like a freakin’ weiner,” he says on the tape, so he ordered her to remove the costume. She refused, invoking her First Amendment rights.
“Am I being detained?” Gamble repeatedly asks Babb, who ignores the question and continues to scold her. “If I’m not being detained, I’m gonna go ahead and leave.”
When she turns to walk away, Babb steps forward and grabs her costume from behind, throwing her on her back. Angry protesters shout at Babb as he forces her to turn over. Two more cops help him pin Gamble on the grass and handcuff her.
“By the time I got there, the cops were stuffing an inflatable penis in the back of their car,” Rae said.
It was, on one hand, hilarious — a slapstick comedy bit brought to life. In the body camera footage, Babb tries and fails to fit Gamble into his own backseat, then hands her off to another officer, who escorts her to a different vehicle. Police wrestle with the oversized costume, ultimately failing to fit the unwieldy polyester penis into the car.
It was also disturbing. Gamble screams in pain in the video as the cops try to push her into the backseat, the handcuffs digging into her wrists. Babb asks where the zipper is and, as he peels off the penis suit, asks Gamble for her name.
She replies, “Aunt Tifa.”
Meanwhile the Proud Boys have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that THEY are the victims of their Jan 6 crimes.
Also, I recently listened to the part of the audiobook The Unhumans, where they express their take on J6 and it is hilarious. I mean, I was literally laughing out loud to hear the snowflake description from this book about the “facts” of J6, and how it was really an insurrection being done on the freedom fightin’ patriots who are just doing a pitched battle with “Communists”, i.e., “unhumans”.
Anyway, as usual, the rightwing sees Communism everywhere in every single bit of opposition to their shitty worldview. I bet more than a few cons think this penis is Communist and coming to take their stuff.
“THE CHILDREN. THINK OF THE CHILDREN. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU ARE TO THE CHILDREN!?!?”
Maybe you shouldn’t have kids if you can’t explain to them what a penis is.
It’s that deeply-rooted Catholic body shame.
Fact is, approximately 50% of children have a penis all of their own.
Fact is, for many of those kids, it’s their favorite play toy.
Fact is, 100% of kids have at least one biological parent who has, or was born with, a penis.
Fact is, if they live with said parent, there’s a very significant chance that they’ve seen it (in innocent, non-sexual scenarios).
Fact is, if they have seen said penis, they likely have commented on how large it is. Usually in a public restroom, for the amusement of all other patrons.
Because fact is, an important rite of passage for any dad, is being out at a mall/store, alone with the kids, and suddenly needing to take a massive shit.
And fact is, my wife, who I love dearly, has grown more penises than I will ever have.
She replies, “Aunt Tifa.”
I love it!
“I would like to hear how you would explain to my children what you’re supposed to be.”
A penis? It’s just anatomy, but it’s pretty telling that this idiot thinks he’d have to get sexual to explain it.
Why oh why do these fucknuts always bring up their children?
Has the US really raised such a puritanical generation that parents are today incapable of explaining to their kids what a penis might be? I mean come on. If you can explain much more visible differences between men and women - say, breasts - then you can well explain the basics of a penis and a vagina. You don’t have to go the full length of the bees and birds and explain sex to a three-four year old, just the basics of bodily differences…
Yes they are that uncomfortable about “sexual” things.
They really need to have it hammered through that nudity does not equal sexuality.
Has the US really raised such a puritanical generation that parents are today incapable of explaining to their kids what a penis might be?
Republicans are just firm believers in “show, don’t tell.”
Thank GOD they’re FINALLY going after
Child Rapists!Rich Pedophiles!Poor Pedophiles?Cis Men in STALKING Women in Bathrooms!Grandmas dressed as PENISES!
