“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.”
how is a penis obscene and how does it threaten children to see a penis costume?
Yes, let’s arrest penis costume grandma instead of warmongering pedoffending nazi monster. (I mean, that even feels insulting to the word monster).
What’s that in your pants? A potatoe? Oh so a dick tator.
Gee, wonder who that cop voted for. I bet we could never guess /s
I want to vote for her for President.
If she had been open carrying a semi-auto she would’ve been fine.
I am going to put a grandma costume on my penis & show ‘em what’s up!
One can wear a penis costume in Japan without a problem. It shows, the USA is still filled with backward ass Puritan a-holes.
But wearing a vulva costume in Japan will get you arrested… Oh the misogyny…
America has a dire prudism problem.
You’re not wrong, but this isn’t a prudism problem. It’s more like a “if it offends YOU, you’re a snowflake, but if it offends ME, then you’re under arrest” problem.
She turned her back on a cop and walked away. No better way to get arrested than to remind them how small they really are.
We need more nekkid people just showing up where ever. Everyone listen up. Hide your face, get undressed, protest hard. Run away quickly & put clothes on. Then ditch the mask. How in the hell is anyone really going to notice any facial features. You are all welcome. I may be the only one that follows through. However, I have tje utmost faith in this minimalist approach. As long as the weather is cooperative btw.
Wear a Nixon mask.
10-4 Roger that affirmative Ghostrider👍
They put you all undressed in the identification row and examine your wieners.
Subject to change. Is there a draft in the room? Can definitely grow & show depending on the season, lighting ambience, mood & all around vibes.
Been there, done that.
The crowd should have tackled and restrained the cops. No more rogue police, it’s time for the citizens to pin you to the ground, cuff you, and leave you there to ROT
I’d love to see this - but not for this situation. Totally pointless. Counter-productive.
Cops got her on disorderly conduct, after the fact. Jt’s a bullshit charge. They had nothing to charge her with otherwise.
But she’s got a civil rights violation lawsuit in the bag. She’s clearly heard repeating “Am I being detained?” The officer didn’t answer and then used physical force to bring her down.
And even outside the law, the court of public opinion matters. Starting a riot by beating the shit out of a cop might not look so good. It’s 20 on 1, and he could get disoriented and fire into the crowd.
But, for the record, if you are EVER dressed as a life-sized penis and a cop asks “What am I supposed to tell my kids?”, you should answer “Tell them Trump is a dick.”
Because that’s an honest answer and there’s nothing inherently sexual about this situation. Half the world has penises, there’s naked statues and painting and pics of penises in every culture around the world. Kids can handle it.
Nah, in this case, you just spool out all the rope they need to hang themselves. They’ll take care of it for you.
Save the mob attack to prevent the upcoming massacre.
the crowd didn’t react because they are the same as that police officer, they think alike.
anyone in any free country would’ve reacted, but the us isn’t a free country.
The bystanders are not like the cop, but yes we do not live in a free society.
Any kid who doesn’t know what she was dressed as can be told she’s anything. Any kid who knows what she was dressed as doesn’t need told.
It’s time for pitchforks. This fascist bullshit isnt going to stop otherwise.
I would begin to explain clearly, and fully to my child what was going on, including the symbolism. The kid would get bored halfway through and ask about something else.
Aunt Tifa rules.
That woman is an absolute legend
