Remember this video?
So what do you think happened to the guy that shot it?

Early Sunday morning the Seattle Police Department booked Evan Hreha into jail on suspicion of unlawfully discharging a laser pointer, according to the King County jail register.

Hreha shot the video of a young girl who was allegedly maced by an SPD officer during the second day of protests against police brutality in Seattle.
...Two people, Jacquelyn Simmons and Tyler Soverns, witnessed the arrest while eating at Fogón Cocina Mexicana.

Simmons said she was on the patio when she saw four police vehicles block off the intersection at Pine St and Belmont on Capitol Hill. Seven officers emerged from the cruisers and "began to interrogate Hreha and started antagonizing onlookers," she said.

As the cops arrested Hreha, one onlooker shouted that the arrest looked unlawful and asked for a name. Hreha spelled it out, introduced himself as the guy who'd shot the video of the maced kid, and said the cops had the wrong guy.

Simmons and Soverns said one man in the crowd then asked if the officers were wearing their body cameras. One officer, who gave his name as Bill Guyer, responded by telling the man he'd "dropped something," when he hadn't dropped anything at all. "The officers were just taunting and instigating. It was pretty awful to observe first-hand intimidation," Simmons said.

Seven officers for discharging a laser pointer? A laser pointer that wasn't even on him.
It screams "retaliation".

If this sounds familiar, that's because it is.

The man who filmed Eric Garner’s death continues to suffer at the hands of law enforcement.
...Orta said once the film of Garner’s death went public, he was targeted for harassment by the police. In 2016, he told the Al Jazeera new site that he was arrested eight times in a two-year span. Orta was eventually arrested on charges of possessing a handgun and selling heroin to an undercover officer.

Earlier this year, a report by The Verge revealed instances of Orta being harassed by corrections officers, beaten, being thrown in and out solitary confinement and alleged attempts to put rat poison in his food.

Before Hreha, before Orta, there was Ferguson.
All of this is common in a banana republic.