{"id":205316,"date":"2020-04-08T06:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=205316"},"modified":"2020-04-10T06:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:25:17","slug":"this-could-only-happen-in-a-police-state-is-that-where-we-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=205316","title":{"rendered":"This Could Only Happen in a Police State \u2013 Is That Where We Live?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Colorado father, 33, is handcuffed in front of his six-year-old daughter for breaking social distancing guidelines by playing tee-ball with his wife and kid in an empty park<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hide Out Now \u2013 April 7, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_205318\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Still-from-video-of-Mooney-being-detained-by-police.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205318\" class=\"wp-image-205318 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Still-from-video-of-Mooney-being-detained-by-police-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Still-from-video-of-Mooney-being-detained-by-police-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Still-from-video-of-Mooney-being-detained-by-police.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-205318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from video of Mooney being arrested. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A Colorado father feels local law enforcement owe him an apology after they handcuffed him in front of his wife and daughter because they claimed he violated social distancing rules by playing tee-ball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Matt Mooney took to Facebook on Monday to share that he had been arrested, posting a cheeky status about how he could mark detainment off his &#8216;bucket list.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Video shared former Brighton City Councilman Kirby Wallin showed Mooney being detained by Brighton police on Sunday.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mooney explained to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/man-arrested-in-front-of-daughter-at-brighton-park-for-allegedly-violating-social-distancing\/\"><strong>KDVR<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0that he refused to identify himself to three officers because he was sure he hadn&#8217;t done anything wrong when he was throwing the tee-ball with his daughter at Donelson Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;She&#8217;s like, &#8220;Daddy, I don&#8217;t want you to get arrested.&#8221; At this point I&#8217;m thinking, &#8220;There&#8217;s no way they&#8217;re going to arrest me, this is insane.&#8221; I&#8217;m telling her, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, Daddy&#8217;s not going to get arrested. I&#8217;ve done nothing wrong. Don&#8217;t worry about it,&#8221; and then they arrest me,&#8217; he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"molvideoplayer\" title=\"MailOnline Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/embed\/video\/2146972.html\" width=\"698\" height=\"573\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the clip, Wallin describes that the father is being detained while &#8216;playing softball with his daughter.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;He&#8217;s being taken by the Brighton police for playing softball with his daughter in an empty park,&#8217; Wallin said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Wallin said of the arrest:\u00a0&#8216;I find it hard to believe with all the things going on in our communities, the only way to resolve a situation like this was to handcuff a father in front of his daughter.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A park sign at Donelson does say &#8216;Closed&#8217; but in smaller print it reads, &#8216;in groups of no more than 4 persons, parks remain open for walking, hiking, biking, running and similar activities.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mooney slammed the officers for being hypocritical\u00a0in their following of the social distancing guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;During the contact, none of the officers had masks on, none of them had gloves on, and they&#8217;re in my face handcuffing me, they&#8217;re touching me,&#8217; he described.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mooney said that he had to spend 10 minutes in the back of a patrol car before being released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;If we&#8217;re going to go ahead and start arresting people for no reason in front of their 6-year-old daughter, you&#8217;re just going to cause more problems later on,&#8217; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The police department alluded to the issue in a statement they posted to Facebook on Sunday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The Brighton Police Department is currently conducting an investigation into a situation that occurred late this afternoon at Donelson Park,&#8217; they said in the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;This is an active investigation and we are unable to provide additional information until the investigation is complete.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">More than 5,100 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in the United States while some 150 people have died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hideoutnow.com\/2020\/04\/colorado-father-33-is-handcuffed-in.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado father, 33, is handcuffed in front of his six-year-old daughter for breaking social distancing guidelines by playing tee-ball with his wife and kid in an empty park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205343,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205316\/revisions\/205343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}