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There really is no excuse for holding people in jail for longer than a day for cases like this, where no violence or big monetary fraud is involved. If the police truly thought that a crime had happened, the appropriate response would have been to call the guy in for questioning and let him go after that. Four days in a jail cell is pretty fucked up.

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No person should be detained or held at all unless there's reason to believe they will engage in imminent violence or other major crimes.

It's a plain and clear violation of his first amendment protections of free speech. There's no excuse for holding people in jail for any period of time for this. Even being detained for a short period of time is a civil rights violation.

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