Posted on 08/15/2009 11:41:02 AM PDT by Dadofmany
Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood. Dylan was in Long Branch, about a two-hour drive south of New York City, on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was to play at a baseball stadium in nearby Lakewood. A 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who Dylan is and asked him for identification, Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley said Friday. "I don't think she was familiar with his entire body of work," Woolley said. The incident began at 5 p.m. when a resident said a man was wandering around a low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood several blocks from the oceanfront looking at houses. The police officer drove up to Dylan, who was wearing a blue jacket, and asked him his name. According to Woolley, the following exchange ensued: "What is your name, sir?" the officer asked. "Bob Dylan," Dylan said.
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RWB agrees with you - 2 great articles on the detention and Dylan’s demeanor.
It was a La Raza neighbourhood
Eric Holder will get right on that.
If a white guy is wandering a black neighborhood - odds are he is trying to buy drugs the residents are all to keen to it. I am not saying that is what Dylan was doing but that is the general MO of whites walking or driving in. As a matter of fact - that is what the cops look for. Irvington, outside of Newark is a notorious open air drug market and guess who drives in from the suburbs to score some smack....
How amazing is it that Bob Dylan cooperated and didn’t claim to be profiled or even harassed! hmm? >>>
there was a time in America when an American citizen could walk on the public sidewalks without having to show his “papers” to the government as they had to do in communist countries.
It’s too bad conservatives don’t know when their civil rights are taken away from them. That’s why we’re all in trouble.
I remember seeing a film strip in high school about the Bill of Rights. An American family wakes up one morning and finds their speech censored, soldiers billeted in their household, big holes cut out of the morning newspaper, etc. Do they still show this film strip in schools?
And so are SOME of his fans..not all. In the 80's I lived with four roommates for a stretch. One of them was the homeowner who was a neon artist (very good) and a huge Dylan fan.
I will never forget the day I came home from work to see flames licking out of the kitchen with said homeowner dancing naked and stoned out of his mind to Dylan tunes in the living room. I doused the flames and found a new place to live post haste. That was so many years ago...but some things just stick with you. I will never ever hear a Bob Dylan song without that scene replaying in my head.
Do they still show this film strip in schools? >>
I don’t think so, I wish they would.
The Long Branch Police are fine people! If you show up here I’ll counter protest! :)
I know anyone can put a keyword in, but am I missing something?
That, and the implicit legal requirement to be able to show papers on demand, or else.
Who is Bob Dylan and why should anyone care if a cop didn’t know him by hs “fame”?
This is America, folks, ain’t no royalty here.
As to being questioned by LEO for walking around, yeah, I don’t like that either, but to get bent over the fact that a cop dosen’t know him? Who cares.
I would not hesitate to ask anyone for ID, even he/she claimed to be famous, even if I recognized them as such. So what. I’m batman too okay?
Best;
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