James Roppo Arrested Because He Didn’t TWEET!
2009/11/24 - By Kurt Avish - 6,114 views
James Roppo, a music executive has been arrested because he failed to tweet! So whether it was a fail whale or a fail to tweet, his act of not tweeting a very important message was an illegal act according to the cops.
The whole story started when thousands of fans gathered to salute a “don’t know from where in hell” teenage pop singer called Justin Bieber at the cloth store Justice at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City. Seeing the number of fans who were excited and screaming, the police asked the singer’s record label to tweet a message to calm down the fans. James Roppo in fact at first tweeted several tweets to tell fans that the singer was signing autographs there.
The situation was becoming dangerous for both the fans and the singer but Def Jam Records failed to tweet the message to calmed down the fans upon the cops orders. Well whether he failed to tweet the message of the police or he didn’t do it deliberately is another question that Nassau County Police will have to investigate.
However Def Jam records vice President, James Roppo has been arrested for not abiding to police request, misdemeanours, including endangering the welfare of children and obstructing governmental administration!
Fail to Tweet = Possible Legal Action
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HUH? there’s not enough information here to call it a whole story. Was it at a concert venue? Was it at a record store? how about at a mall? even if he did tweet,some people wouldn’t have received it. I for one, can’t afford internet on my phone. The best way to address a crowd is over a loud speaker, or if one is not available, a bull horn. I never heard of tweeting a crowd to calm them. That’s just a ridiculous request,and not a very effctive means of getting your message across.
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well. it says it was at a clothing store. so there you go.
but i dont understand what a TWEET would do to calm down a bunch of screaming fans… why not post a facebook update… or text all of them.
or just pass them a fkng note??
idiots.
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This is what to expect in the future or near future, the police can do what ever they want when they want and until it happens to you it will seem like they can do no wrong.
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Timothy Jones Reply:
November 25th, 2009 at 12:12 AM
@Carlos Torres,
I agree with you 100 percent. This country is going to hell in a hand basket almost overnight it seems and we the people have not a chance and are almost not allowed to say anything in public. It is as if we are in post WWII Russia and we will be shot at the wall if we speak our minds…Where the hell did our rights go? Where did our Bill of Rights go and why did our fore fathers even waste their time writing the Declaration of Independence if it is not worth the paper it was written on or sheep skin if that’s the case. I am so glad I did not bring kids into this world to grow up in this God Forsaken country that so many good people died to protect and keep it free so the government could steal away everyone’s right like a thief in the night and behind closed doors like all crooked politicians have done for many, many years. It makes me sick to think I am an American some times and it seems like no one sees what’s happening but me at times or either they are just afraid to voice their opinion unlike me…..God bless all who read this and remember there is a better place after death and I hear it is not being taxed to death and you don’t have to bribe a crooked cop, judge, lawyer, or politician to get in just live a honest good life and believe in Jesus….Good deal as far as I am concerned…
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I Think that’s fair. The request of the police was a reasonable one. They were trying to protect people from being injured or killed, which is their job-”To serve and protect”. If they did not do something people would be on their ass for that…you could never pay me enough to be a cop or the president…way too much resonsibility to protect everyone…then you get too much sh*t from everyone for tyring to do what you are supposed to do.
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Timothy Jones Reply:
November 25th, 2009 at 12:33 AM
@Lancelot Dulac,
Yes but is it the record labels place to control the public or is it the police dept’s place who is getting paid to do that job and if they can run around giving tickets or arresting people for not doing the police departments job how long is it going to be before they arrest you or someone you know for not, let’s say stopping a crime in your area or maybe when you see a man getting ready to shoot someone like in a carjacking are you going to run up on the criminal and try to stop the crazy man with the gun and when you don’t, do you think it is going to be right for the police to arrest you because you seen it going down but didn’t want to die that day from a gunshot so you did not intervene or is it the policeman’s job to take care of those type of things since they get paid to do it and that’s why they carry the badge and gun for the job…Think about it! The police are wrong in this, sure the record label could have done more, but they did not break any laws by not doing what the police asked and it is not their job to do crowd control anywhere but in their own building or on their own property and if someone got hurt their they could be sued in civil court not criminal court unless they broke a law or ordinance….I hope the record label sues the shit out of the police dept. and makes an example out of them on principle alone for this in justice then maybe the next time they will do their own job instead of trying to make someone else do their job for them….
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How rediculous can the police be to even expect a twitter to calm a crowd like that. I agree that a bullhorn or loud speaker would have been much more effective. Sounds to me like another abuse of police powers
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Do what the police tell you to do wether you agree with it or not. Funny! I don’t recall that being part of the Fourth Admendment. I don’t think the police telling you to cancel an event and you refusing rates as probable cause.
Seems like the police caused more problems when they would’t let the singer in when he did show up. (Info from another site.)
(Fourth Admendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. )
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This is very ridiculous. Lazy cops these days. I seem to remember a news story a while back involving a record exec being asked by cops to do something. Sure, it may be the exec’s job, but how lazy can you be?
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The police’s job is not to protect you but to investigate crimes and be liaisons between you and the court. It is our own responsibility to protect ourselves. They are responsible to help protect society and have the right to disburse an unruly crowd. They do not have the right to cancel an event. They should have planned better. (Everyone)
7/15/05 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 04-278 TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO, PETITIONER v. JESSICA GONZALES, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS NEXT BEST FRIEND OF HER DECEASED MINOR CHILDREN, REBECCA GONZALES, KATHERYN GONZALES, AND LESLIE GONZALES
On June 27, in the case of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, the Supreme Court found that Jessica Gonzales did not have a constitutional right to individual police protection even in the presence of a restraining order. Mrs. Gonzales’ husband with a track record of violence, stabbing Mrs. Gonzales to death, Mrs. Gonzales’ family could not get the Supreme Court to change their unanimous decision for one’s individual protection. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN FOLKS AND GOVERNMENT BODIES ARE REFUSING TO PASS THE Safety Ordinance.
(1) Richard W. Stevens. 1999. Dial 911 and Die. Hartford, Wisconsin: Mazel Freedom Press.
(2) Barillari v. City of Milwaukee, 533 N.W.2d 759 (Wis. 1995).
(3) Bowers v. DeVito, 686 F.2d 616 (7th Cir. 1982).
(4) DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 489 U.S. 189 (1989).
(5) Ford v. Town of Grafton, 693 N.E.2d 1047 (Mass. App. 1998).
(6) Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. 1981).
“…a government and its agencies are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen…” -Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App. 1981)
(7) “What makes the City’s position particularly difficult to understand is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law, Linda did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of NY which now denies all responsibility to her.”
Riss v. New York, 22 N.Y.2d 579,293 N.Y.S.2d 897, 240 N.E.2d 806 (1958).
(8) “Law enforcement agencies and personnel have no duty to protect individuals from the criminal acts of others; instead their duty is to preserve the peace and arrest law breakers for the protection of the general public.”
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Ok that might be one of the most ridiculous twitter offenses I have seen yet.
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Somebody sent me a reply, cant remember their screen name, but here is my response to you. What does a carjacking have to do with this little wimps mini concert at a record store? …YES if I did see a carjacking happening I would do everything in my power to stop it. I would even try to kill the car jacker if I could rather than let him escape, a tire iron, a hammer, a rock, anything handy. Our society would be much better off if people quit turning their heads away from things like that & saying “it’s not my problem” because they are lazy, or a coward.
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