Racially motivated? - Democratic Underground

MichaelHarris

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Thu Aug-20-09 02:37 AM
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Racially motivated?

Dress code for mall shoppers? http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=f6898aa37979e198

Wanna see the bad part of society? Check back and read the comments that start pouring in, I used to live in Galveston Co. Texas.

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daedalus_dude

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Thu Aug-20-09 02:54 AM
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1. Another instance of regulations that are so vaguely formulated...

...that it allows officers to act against anyone for any reason they want.

What is "gang related dressing"? That can be just about anything. The yakuza often dress in
business suits.

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MichaelHarris

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Thu Aug-20-09 02:56 AM
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2. maybe a return of the

Zoot Suits?

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DCKit

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Thu Aug-20-09 02:58 AM
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3. Nope, just another fascist cop - with full consent of his department and other fascists. n/t

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Swamp Rat

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Thu Aug-20-09 03:05 AM
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4. Malls suck

Fuck malls and their stupid stores which sell crap and crappy food to Americans.

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zbdent

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:24 AM
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5. As a friend reminded me a few years back, malls are private property

and you can be kicked out for whatever reason the owners choose.

Now, that being said, I wonder if the kid with the chain would have been detained by security if his name was "Joe Smith" and traced his lineage back to the Mayflower and had a NASCAR shirt on ... as it was, his name was "Fernando" (oddly enough, that name invokes the image of ABBA, some of the whitest people I've seen this side of David Bowie) ...

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EFerrari

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:46 AM
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6. Last year, the CA Supreme Court ruled that for the purposes

of free speech (demonstrations), malls were the public square. So, it really isn't as cut and dried as that.

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zbdent

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:02 AM
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7. I wonder if there's a "Victoria's Secret" in that mall ...

and if the window's display fits the dress code ...

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