The first arrest has been made for manspreading

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Get your shit together USA, don't let them win.

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Two men from Brooklyn were arrested for 'manspreading', it has been revealed, after police found them taking up too much room on the subway.The Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP) poured over court testimony, talked to lawyers and reviewed lawsuits and news reports to produce a PDF on NYPD practice in the past few years.Most of the 117 vignettes it published are examples of what it sees as people "experiencing and enduring disrespect and abuse at the hands of NYPD officers", particularly with regards to race and class, but one bizarre anecdote picked out by Gothamistabout men taking up too much room on transport (known as manspreading) was tucked away in there:On a recent visit to the arraignment part in Brooklyn’s criminal court, PROP volunteers observed that police officers had arrested two Latino men on the charge of "man spreading" on the subway, presumably because they were taking up more than one seat and therefore inconveniencing other riders. Before issuing an [adjournment contemplating dismissal] for both men, the judge expressed her skepticism about the charge because of the time of the arrests: "12:11AM, I can't believe there were many people on the subway".One of the posters used in the Manhattan Transport Authority's anti-manspreading campaignDespite this admission from the judge, and the fact that New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority rules of conduct only prohibit taking up more than one seat if it interferes with the functioning of the train or the "comfort of other passengers", she did not dismiss the men outright but give them an ACD – meaning charges will be dropped if they don't get arrested again for a certain amount of time.PROP said it was the first case it had found of "manspreading" being said out loud in a court of law.@christophhooton

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-first-arrest-has-been-made-for-manspreading-10285011.html

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pfft feminazis get their way sometimes.

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#4  Edited By Pyrogram

I don't see how manspeading is an arrestable offence, that's crazy. LOL Does that men we arrest fat people too? xD

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That's just not right. I can see a fine, but arrest? That's too far.

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lol wat?

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@pyrogram said:

I don't see how manspeading is an arrestable offence, that's crazy. LOL Does that men we arrest fat people too? xD

and those old ladies with grocery bags

>_>

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#8  Edited By flashback0180

At 12am this is bullshit, there is no way in hell a entire cart will be filled at midnight .this is shaddy and you know it.

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At 12am this is bullshit, there is no way in hell a entire cart will be filled at midnight .this is shaddy and you know it.

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#10  Edited By Mortein
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@lettsplay10: @flashback0180:look it up, more links or sites on it

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/manspreading-can-get-you-arrested.html

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Lets arrest women for spreading.

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#14 frozen  Moderator

LOL what? Obviously there must be context missing from this.

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Well this is beyond stupid.

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It just doesn't get any dumber than this.

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We're they arrested for "man spreading" or for taking up more than one space on a public transport vehicle?

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It wasn't because of "man spreading" they were space hogging. Meaning they weren't letting others sit in seats making people stand.

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@cable_extreme: This is probably the reason, to be fair. It was probably arrested for being a nuisance or something like that xP

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#22  Edited By Cable_Extreme

@pyrogram: yeah, click the link and under the picture it says this, "Subway authorities have been trying to crack down on the space-hogging". I think someone has an agenda

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For real?????

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WOW. Even if it was because they were hogging space, how do they get arrested? AND AT 12:11 AM. They could've been simply been warned or asked to take one seat. But this was at f*ckin midnight. This is beyond ridiculous. Someone please tell me this isn't true. And I didn't even know a person can get arrested for taking up space. Were the cops bored or what? What the F*CK.

These two guys should sue the city for their pathetic and retarded way of enforcing the law.

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WOW. Even if it was because they were hogging space, how do they get arrested? AND AT 12:11 AM. They could've been simply been warned or asked to take one seat. But this was at f*ckin midnight. This is beyond ridiculous. Someone please tell me this isn't true. And I didn't even know a person can get arrested for taking up space. Were the cops bored or what? What the F*CK.

These two guys should sue the city for their pathetic and retarded way of enforcing the law.

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I'm from NYC.

I can tell you the NYPD has been doing that for quite some time.

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@vivide: I thought that was "sitting Indian style" for men from New Jersey.

Ha ha?

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@neghead: pshh, those hoes will scream 'cultural appropriation'

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If we're going to arrest men for manspreading, we should also arrest women who take up seats with their bags.

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#31 frozen  Moderator

It wasn't because of "man spreading" they were space hogging. Meaning they weren't letting others sit in seats making people stand.

Even if this were true, it's bullsh*t to arrest someone for that.

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The NYPD are the greatest jimmy rustlers of all time.

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#34  Edited By those_eyes

@cable_extreme said:

@frozen: I can agree with that

Yae i can understand a fine but being arrested for it is just straight up jimmy rustling.

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@pyrogram: My jimmies are definitely rustled. It will take some time before they recover. I'm still waiting for someone to discredit this article or find that's it's fake. This cannot be true. What the hell is going on in New York.

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#36  Edited By Cable_Extreme

@silkyballfro94: they were arrested for purposfully taking up space and not letting people sit down. Basically taking up multiple seats.

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@those_eyes: someone can be arrested, then released with no charges, it is corrupt, but not unheard of.

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Feminazis.

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@silkyballfro94: they were arrested for purposfully taking up space and not letting people sit down. Basically taking up multiple seats.

At 12:11 AM in the morning? Really?

That is very unlikely there were a limit of open seats at 12:11 AM. But ive never been to new york so i dont know.

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#42  Edited By Mortein

@mortein said:

The true irony is that manspreading is the most attractive way of sitting.

http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/sit-like-this-to-turn-her-on

To expand on this,

What this means is that those manginas who from now on will sit like a girl to accommodate feminazis, will be less likely to have sex, than jerks who don't give a fu*k what feminazis want and are not ashamed to expand their personal territory as much as they can, even to the expense of other people.

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@those_eyes: well, the time doesn't indicate reality, only the likelihood. For all we know, if they were arrested for hogging seats, I assume it was packed.

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Even if they were hogging seats, does taking up too much room on a bus justify armed police officers attacking someone? What if the violence escalated, and people ended up dying? That happens all the time during arrests. We shouldn't have laws we aren't willing to kill for.

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lol