One of the arrested wrote in the Vancouver Observer: [S]itting in that jail cell, I felt a weight lift from my shoulders.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, knowing that he was about to be arrested, wrote a note ("I lived honestly all my life"), shot his wife, shoved the barrel of a revolver into his mouth, and pulled the trigger.
Not only should she be eliminated for that, she should also be arrested," wrote Daz Gale, while another user tweeted: "Justice for Iain and a thousand lashes for the ice cream melting super-villain Diana".
In their quarterly letter to investors, Mr. Hastings and Netflix's chief financial officer, David Wells, attributed some of the second-quarter subscriber gains to "Arrested," writing, "This show already had a strong brand and fan base, generating a small but noticeable bump in membership when we released it".
In a way, they had no choice, because Perez's word was by itself enough to undermine confidence in any case in which he had made the arrest, written the report, or testified in court.
Activists said it was particularly troubling that none of the latest journalists to be arrested had written anything politically provocative.
In 1938, he was arrested for writing "Save the Czechs" on a Whitehall pavement when Chamberlain returned from Munich.
"Secret arrests," wrote Judge Gladys Kessler, "are a concept odious to a democratic society".
"Internal affairs is supposed to operate independently of the rest of the police department to avoid conflicts of interest that would jeopardize investigations into officers accused of corruption, brutality and false arrests," writes Motor City Muckraker.
He also criticised the three other officers and the supervisor who were present for the arrest, writing that one possibly lied in the official report and two others ignored Thomas's requests for medical aid.
