Posted on 10/15/2025 12:19:51 PM PDT by simpson96
Federal agents arrested a Portland mother who was playing the “Ghostbusters” theme song on her clarinet at a protest outside an ICE facility.
Oriana Korol, 38, is a member of the Unpresidented Brass Band, which calls itself a “social action oriented, horn driven marching band,” and seeks to deescalate protest tensions. In a video of her arrest from Sunday, a federal agent can be seen violently dragging Korol to the ground, as two more agents come to his aid and her clarinet falls out of her hands.
She has been in Clark County Jail in Vancouver, Washington, since, and is still being held without bail.
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This arrest is yet another example of the excessive, indiscriminate, and in some instances unlawful actions that the federal agents who’ve flooded American cities in the past few months have taken. On Tuesday, federal agents in Chicago violated a freshly minted temporary restraining order banning them from tear-gassing civilians, also gassing local police officers in the process.
The Portland Mutual Aid Network has called for Korol’s release, urging supporters to call the Clark County Jail.
“Oriana Korol was peacefully protesting ICE on 10/12 and was illegally detained by ICE and DHS,” their statement reads. “She is the clarinet player for Unpresidented Brass Band, and was playing music for protestors.
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Unrelated to the rioters. This woman was performing a published work in public without paying the required royalty to Sony/ATV Tunes LLC.
Arrested after =/= Arrested because.
She’s in a beast band with a reed instrument?
Nope, not gonna work.
Whatever particular land she's standing on was not owned by all these tribes at the same time. They fought constantly, and did not get along.
PLAY STUPID GAMES
WIN STUPID PRIZES
FIRST CLASS STUPID
“Who’s she gonna call?”
LOL
I listen to bird language and make baskets. OK
That’s right.
Furries. Blowup dinosaurs. Clarinets. Naked bike rides.
Send them all to GITMO.
Treason? No, asininity on a cosmic level, yes. If that is what she wants to do she is going to have a hard time finding the original settlers of North America, because all of the existing tribes stole their land from some other tribe by murdering and enslaving other tribes….noble stewards of the Earth my 🫏
She was playing a skin flute.
The rest of the band kept playing. They were not arrested. She did something to impede ICE or manhandle an ICE agent.
There is a reason she was arrested and nobody else in the band.
All videos start with her on the ground so we will never see what she did before she was arrested by ICE.
There’s already too much sax and violins.
……” this one time, at band camp, this guy asked me to….”
Are they sure it wasn't Huey Lewis' attorney?
Bagpipes are always the lead instrument.
The federal LE may have arrested her for playing a clarinet in a brass band.
That would do it. Police don’t even need a warrant for a musical felony such as that! //
I’m sure all she was doing was just playing a clarinet and not violently interfering with law enforcement. The New Republic. NOw THERE’S a non biased agency. The headline is like the;
“Black man killed for broken tail light” while completely ignoring he had three dead bodies in the trunk and was shooting at officers who were returning fire.
As well as George Gershwin and Glenn Miller…
I fault OP for not doing some due diligence here.
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