{"id":919,"date":"2009-08-14T22:58:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T05:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/bob_dylan_arrested_for_looking\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T22:58:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T05:58:45","slug":"bob_dylan_arrested_for_looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/bob_dylan_arrested_for_looking.html","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan arrested for looking…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…eccentric<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Police officer Craig Spencer said: ‘Residents called to complain there was an old scruffy man acting suspiciously.
\n‘It was an odd request because it was mid-afternoon, but it’s an ethnic Latin area and the residents felt the man didn’t fit in<\/b>. Lets just say he looked eccentric.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At 68, Dylan tends to look as if he doesn’t have a dime. No facials for him, no teeth whitener, no Barney’s. <\/p>\n

From Jan Herman:

Living in a Police State is OK<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n

I know, because I live in one, and I’m doing fine. I haven’t been arrested for jaywalking, littering, loitering, begging, or sleeping under a bridge. I haven’t been arrested for sleeping in a homeless shelter when there’s an outstanding warrant against me for sleeping on a suburban sidewalk. I haven’t been arrested for being someone who looks to a reasonable person like I belong on public assistance. I haven’t been arrested for eating food someone gave me in a park. I haven’t been arrested for not being white, wearing a wrong-color T-shirt in a wrong-color neighborhood, or looking overly anxious in an airport. I haven’t been arrested for being late for school or without ID in public housing. And those are just some of the things I haven’t been arrested for. The reason I haven’t been arrested is not because I’m white and haven’t committed any of these crimes — let’s face it, I’ve jaywalked, littered, and loitered, which makes me a triple threat — it’s because I’m not poor. If I were, living in my police state would not be OK, as Barbara Ehrenreich points out today in her must-read NY Times op-ed<\/a> on “the viciousness of the official animus toward the indigent.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

News reports of the incident stress the humor of a 22-year-old police woman who didn’t recognize Dylan. None discuss why it’s ok to cuff somebody for looking odd, eccentric, out of place, indigent. <\/p>\n

Even if he weren’t a celebrity, Johnny Depp could dress as shabbily as he wants. He’s protected by the beauty bubble.<\/p>\n

Those with no money and no allure are advised to step lively in the street, with purpose and benign good will. Poor, ugly, weak and grim? Be sure to have a public defender on speed dial.<\/p>\n

Here’s to the odd. <\/p>\n

Heidi Schwegler<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"heidischweglerface.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>John Waters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"johnwatersodd.jpg\"<\/span>Alice Wheeler<\/a><\/p>\n

\"alicewheelerodd.jpg\"<\/span>Zoe Strauss<\/a><\/p>\n

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