Looks about right.
Posted on 01/07/2026 8:22:41 AM PST by subterfuge
A preschool teacher was arrested on camera as she finished a TV interview about Donald Trump’s raid on Venezuela to seize Nicolás Maduro...
Jessica Plichta, 22, said she was the only person arrested among roughly 200 demonstrators at an anti-war protest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, hours after Maduro was detained in Caracas...
In the broadcast footage, two officers could be seen approaching from behind as she wrapped her interview with WZZM, the city’s ABC affiliate, then escorted her away as she told them, “I am not resisting arrest.”
WZZM said an officer cited “obstructing a roadway and failure to obey a lawful command,” and that Plichta had been charged with failure to obey a lawful command.
Plichta later told Zeteo: “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as soon as I finished an interview speaking on Venezuela, I was arrested.”
She told the outlet the officers shoved her into the back of a patrol car without fastening her seat belt, then drove a short distance down the street—out of view of cameras and bystanders.
According to Plichta, they stopped again, pulled her out, bent her over the vehicle, patted her down, and took her belongings. She recalled one officer saying they moved her because she was “making a scene.”
“We are so accustomed to, and used to, repression when we speak out on anti-war topics. When we speak out for Venezuela, when we speak out for Palestine, we expect the police to want to shut that down,” she told Zeteo.
Plichta said she largely stayed quiet as officers took her to jail, where she said the same questions continued. She was released about three hours later after other protesters gathered to demand she be freed, and was seen punching the air in a video shared on Facebook.
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Oh please. Like she’s going to say, I was arrested for pushing someone. Or for an outstanding warrant.
Stupid young mind full of mush supports dictator Maduro and Palestinians. Makes sense.
Looks about right.
The Daily Beast? Really? Yeah let’s get verification from The Rolling Stone and Yahoo
It all sounds staged to me. What livery was on the “patrol car”?
She suffers from the Gretel Thunderbutt Derangement Syndrome. She wants to be another angry little girl with a crappy, Prince Valiant haircut.
Completely unnecessary to arrest this young woman after the fact, especially while TV cameras were rolling.
She was literally blocking traffic, that was the reason for her arrest. This is the media trying to further resistance through lying propaganda, writing in a way to insinuate the arrest was for her views. Honestly, they should be legally held accountable for such seditious filth.
Maybe she was arrested for that god awful haircut.
Wow, I didn’t realize you were there. It must have been exciting.
If you break a law, you're going to get arrested. It doesn't matter whether cameras are rolling. The police did the only thing they could do in this situation.
Right, how unreasonable to enforce the law, who needs that/.
Good grief get real, with your logic exactly who should be accountable to any law, what exactly is your personal metric for that, who gets the extra privileges of being above the law?
Yep.
Hope they keep her, we don’t need her back here.
Get out of the street.
She needed Michael Byrd to keep her from getting on the street.
Three hours is barely enough time to book her.
Only one arrested?
Sounds staged indeed.
Somebody that knows how should check and seen if she got a mug shot.
I would guess NO.
Big time.
“A preschool teacher” = daycare worker with minimal or no education.
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