One moment, Jessica Plichta is standing on a street in Grand Rapids, passionately dissecting US foreign policy. The next thing, the interview is over—not because she ran out of words, but because she was in handcuffs.
The footage is jarring. It captures the exact second a political protest turned into a police encounter, leaving viewers to watch an activist's critique of the incoming administration's Venezuela strategy get cut short by an arrest. Plichta was arrested by two Grand Rapids police officers immediately after finishing the interview.
