Moscow police arrested and beat up one of the paddy wagon signs. On July 3, streamer Vitaly (nickname ya__dalbaeb, 120 subscribers) live-streamed a walk with friends around China Town on the Twitch platform.
Two minutes after the broadcast began, they wrote, “Be careful, Khabar.” He approached a group of people who warned him not to go further down the street because “they will take him.” During the conversation, a rice cart passed by, and Vitaly waved to it. A police officer got out of the car and seized the sign.
According to Vitale, the police beat him several times and then sent the streamer and his friends to the paddy wagon. In the paddy wagon, the announcer said, one of the police officers beat people there with a stun gun, and it is possible that, as Vitale indicated, among them were minors.
The broadcaster said that in the section where the detainees were brought, he was beaten in the face at least two more times and his phone was taken. The carrier was released without filing a report, but the phone was not returned.
“In the end, I couldn’t find my phone. I want to say that I was very lucky that they let us go. I was still afraid that they would throw something at me. This was the worst thing, and this is what I was most afraid of.” quotes Story “Mediazone” by streamer.
The next day, the streamer used geolocation services to find the branch where his phone was located and came there to pick it up. According to Vitale, the police did not want to return the phone and threatened to test him for drugs, but they returned it after a lot of persuasion.