This video from the USA is called: HNN: Historian’s Arrest for Jaywalking; part 1.
These two videos are the sequels.
From the American Historical Association:
Saturday January 6, 2007
It was a day of news.
The morning brought word that one of the lifetime members of the AHA attending the annual convention had been arrested and tossed in jail for jaywalking.
On Friday the Tufts historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto was arrested by Atlanta police as he crossed the middle of the street between the Hilton and Hyatt hotels.
After being thrown on the ground and handcuffed, the former Oxford don was formally arrested, his hands cuffed behind his back.
Several policemen pressed hard on his neck and chest, leaving the mild-mannered scholar, who’s never gotten so much as a parking ticket, bruised and in pain.
He was then taken down to the detention center along with other accused felons and thrown into a filthy jail cell filled with prisoners. He remained incarcerated for eight hours.
Officials demanded bail of over a thousand dollars. To come up up with the money Fernandez-Armesto, the author of nineteen books, had to make an arrangement with a bail bondsman.
In court even the prosecutors seemed embarrassed by the arrest and asked Fernandez-Armesto to plead nolo contendere.
He refused, concerned that the stain on his record might put his green card status in jeopardy.
Officials finally agreed to drop all charges. The judge expressed his approval.
The professor says he has no plans to sue. But the AHA council is considering lodging a complaint with the city.
Professor Fernandez-Armesto provided HNN with a riveting account of his day in an Atlanta jail. We have broken the interview into several parts to make the download quicker.
So, the hysteria in the USA is certainly not limited to the ‘anti terrorist’ arrest of eminent Egyptian Egyptologist Hawass.
Dear Kitty. Some blog 
Free the Lucasville 5
In 1995 five innocent men were sent to death row in connection with the prison uprising
in Lucasville, Ohio in 1993.
• Siddique Abdullah Hasan • George Skatzes • Jason Robb • Namir Abdul Mateen, and • Bomani Hondo Shakur (Keith Lamar) were convicted of capital
murder in relation to the deaths of a guard and nine inmates.
Four of the five were actually involved in negotiating a resolution of grievances and ending the uprising. The fifth, Bomani Shakur, was one who simply refused to talk.
None of the Five had any involvement in these killings or the decision to carry them out. Other inmates had their sentences reduced in exchange for perjured testimony, which
some of them have now recanted.
When the African-American and specifically the Muslim defendants were on trial,
the prosecution appealed to racism and anti-Islamic prejudice.
They have been in solitary confinement for 13 long years
and their appeals are running out.
YOU CAN REVERSE
THIS TERRIBLE INJUSTICE
Demonstrate Jan. 14
2-4 pm outside the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday.
OSP is a supermax prison located
at 878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd.,
Youngstown, OH.
Four of the Lucasville Five are held
in OSP as well as most of Ohio’s
189 other death row prisoners.
Transportation is being organized
from Cleveland. For bus reservations or more info, call (216) 481-6671
or email pfcenter@sbcglobal.net.
Tell Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio to overturn the convictions of all prisoners with charges related to the Lucasville rebellion.
TELL HIM TO HALT
THE EXECUTIONS
IN OHIO
Write to Gov. Ted Strickland
77 High Street, 30th Floor,
Columbus, Ohio 43215
FAX (614) 728-4819 or
call him at (614) 728-4900.
Martin Luther King in jail
From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
1963 letter from Birmingham Jail:
“For more than two centuries our forebears labored in this country without wages; they made cotton king; they built the homes of their masters while suffering gross injustice and shameful humiliation- and yet out of a bottomless vitality they continued to thrive and develop.
If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.”
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