Florida cop, Marine vet, arrested for wearing ‘Anonymous’ mask warns of ‘a war coming’
Michael Dorstewitz
BizPacReview.com
December 7, 2013
A veteran South Florida police officer and former Marine arrested late last month for refusing to remove his Guy Fawkes mask near an anti-Obamacare demonstration. He has now come forward to say what motivated him.
Ericson Harrell, 39, a 15-year veteran of the North Miami Beach Police Department who spent four years in the Marines, was driving through Plantation when he came upon the rally, according to the Sun Sentinel. He parked his vehicle, donned his cape and mask and grabbed his banner — an inverted U.S. flag, signifying distress. .
When police later stopped him and told him to remove the mask, Harrell said he politely refused, asserting his First Amendment rights to free speech and peaceful assembly.
The arresting officer and her supervisor assumed Harrell was part of demonstration, but “in actual reality,” he told Red Pill Philosophy. “I was alone at the time. I was a soldier of one.”
Harrell said he only identified himself as a police officer “after the fact, because I didn’t want to get any preferential treatment.”
The simple response would have been to remove the mask. Had Harrell done so, the officer would have moved on and that would have been the end of it.
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