At Least Two Subway Riders Have Been Arrested for Man-Spreading
LatestFirst they came for the man-spreaders and I said nothing…
Buried in the pages of the Police Reform Organizing Project’s recent “That’s How They Get You” report, Gothamist unearthed this little gem:
On a recent visit to the arraignment part in Brooklyn’s criminal court, PROP volunteers observed that police officers had arrested two Latino men on the charge of “man spreading” on the subway, presumably because they were taking up more than one seat and therefore inconveniencing other riders. Before issuing an [adjournment contemplating dismissal] for both men, the judge expressed her skepticism about the charge because of the time of the arrests: “12:11AM, I can’t believe there were many people on the subway.”
That’s right. The police arrested two men for the crime of man-spreading, i.e. taking up too much room on the subway by spreading their legs wide in order to accommodate what we can only assume are their massively large balls.