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Very quick summary as I can't talk about it much yet (maybe in a few months). I was on bail at my home in Chicago. I was getting arrested every day by the police for no reason. They would come cuff me up, drag me outside, uncuff me. The press caught onto it. I did interviews. The public defender's office tweeted a link to one of the newspaper articles. I retweeted. The police arrested me for it. The judge agreed that I shouldn't be tweeting about police harassment, especially not under a "fake name" (my Twitter username is my first name, and the tweet literally is a newspaper article about me). It took me three months of being in jail to even get in front of the judge to argue it. And we reargued it and lost again. After that I just sucked it up. I got out six months later after three months in a supermax.


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