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Woman who would scream at people at BLM rallies sues State Police for failing to protect her from people who screamed at her and, she claims, put her in a headlock while menacing her with a can of Twisted Tea

Dianna Ploss, already suing Winthrop Police for allegedly failing to protect her from people who took exception to her rantings during a Trump rally in 2020, last week sued State Police for allegedly failing to protect her from people who took exception to her rantings during a Trump rally outside Charlie Baker's Swampscott home three months later.

She is seeking $2 million in damages, to start, plus even more for all of the nightmares and stuff she's suffered, according to her suit, filed in US District Court in Boston.

Ploss, a onetime Black Lives Matter hater who has since moved onto Jew hating, claims that on Jan. 2, 2021, as she stood across the street from Baker's home, a horde of 15 people got her in her face - rather like she would do at BLM rallies, only one of the rabble "knocked her tripod and camera to the ground." The "crowd" grew to 25 people and "physically surrounded Plaintiff and those with her, yelling in their ears with the bullhorns, and physically pushing them," even though two of her companions were elderly and one walked with a cane, the complaint alleges.

And yet State Police, standing right there in a cordon around the governor's house, did nothing, even as two of the "crowd" engaged in "a vicious and violent physical attack on Plaintiff using a full, twenty-four (24) ounce can of Twisted Tea" - holding the can "in her face" as they simultaneously put her in a headlock for eight minutes, she charges in a suit filed in US District Court in Boston.

One MSP member replied to Plaintiff’s cries for help while she was being restrained in a head lock, "He can do that all day long if he wants."

Ploss alleges that State Police kept doing nothing even as "dozens and dozens of people from across the country called both the MSP and Swampscott Police Department to report the assault and battery in progress." The complaint does not specify how people outside Swampscott knew to call police in real time, but Ploss typically livestreams her outdoor activities via her iPhone mounted on a tripod or monopod.

Due to failure of the MSP, Plaintiff has, and continues, to suffer with symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including but not limited to nightmares, hypervigilance, hyper startle reflex, and flashbacks.

Ploss was able to attend the rally even though she was already experiencing the same exact symptoms from an incident at a Trump rally in Winthrop on Oct. 20, at which she alleges Winthrop Police also failed to protect her from screaming protesters, one of whom allegedly offered her $10 to buy a dildo and use it in a sexual act on him.

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lost her right-wing radio talk show in NH and has run for Gov. in MA.
Just. Go. Away.

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Is there an easy/obvious way to listen to the 911 recordings of the "dozens" of calls to the Staties and Swampscott PD?

I want to feel warm and cozy as I go to bed each night.

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You can't (successfully) sue the police for failing to protect you. That's well established.

Maybe these far right wingers would be interested in changing this law, if they have a strong belief that people should depend on the government to protect them from their own intentional risky actions.

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You can't sue the police for not preventing someone from sucker punching you. But according to the woman's complaint, she was in a headlock for 8 minutes calling for aid and the Statie encouraged the assault to continue.

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As usual the wingnut is lying about everything.

Can we just deport MAGA?

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Due to failure of the MSP, Plaintiff has, and continues, to suffer with symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including but not limited to nightmares, hypervigilance, hyper startle reflex, and flashbacks.

You know this might lead her to get some professional help, cuz god knows she clearly needs it. What a fuckin whack-o-doodle she is.

The more these types of crazy people continue with this shit, the more and more I believe we really have a mental health crisis in our country. We gotta do something, its getting worse and worse every year. I fear what these people will be like if TFG loses bigly this year.

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Being a jerk doesn't necessarily mean you are mentally ill.

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I believe we really have a mental health crisis in our country.

But I think social media is to blame for pretty much all of it. If this woman never got to see her name on the internet I don't think she would be doing what she does. And 50 years ago someone like her would be locked up somewhere for a long time the 2nd or 3rd time she tried to pull stuff like this off.

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Massive lead exposures from airborne lead prior to 1980s. While the early focus on lead was reduced IQ, that turned out to be far more subtle than the damage lead did to the ability of people who were exposed as children to control their impulses and react nonviolently to frustration.

Lead exposure in childhood is also suspected, along with heavy cigarette smoke exposure, as a factor in dementia development.

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...a lazy bum just like Nazis historically are, psychotic, neurotic, and incapable of holding down a job or functioning in normal society. Her survival strategy is getting society to pay her (lavishly) for her failure to behave appropriately and work for a living like everyone else.

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Poor little snowflake can dish it out but she can't take it.

She's lucky it was only screaming back at her candy ass, and not the sort of treatment her favorite former guy thought hecklers should receive.

And yet State Police, standing right there in a cordon around the governor's house, did nothing,

Um, honey, they weren't there to protect your specialness - they were there for the Governor's protection. Your victim stunt - if it actually happened other than someone yelling back in your sicko face - could have been a false flag, amirite?

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Eight minutes in a headlock? That particular number seems to be a huge coincidence...

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There's no way that Twisted Tea should be available in a 24oz can.

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...about that headlock. Not only could she read the product off the label, she could even read the size. That's a pretty easygoing headlock.

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Eagerly awaiting the master tactician’s next plays.

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Standing ovation to whomever "menaced" her with a Twisted Tea, that is mighty poetic

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