Arrest in Chinatown (Edison, 1897)

[macroevolve]

Back when San Francisco was a conservative town

[elementsk8punk]

Ma'am, you are under arrest for public indecency! How DARE you show your ankles! There are children about!

[ChristmassApe]

Huzzah! Now that the sinister cunning of the opium-smuggling China-man has been thwarted we can now focus our civic efforts into overseeing the most curmudgeonly and beastly Irish Catholic menace that continues to pour into our borders. Good day sirs.

[sanctainquisitio]

Chinese mafia invading the world.

[0SSAMA1988]

Stupid clumsy looking Americans here like living in shithole of some african country

[umbrellashotgunman]

I guess somebody forgot to stash the opium away from the cops.

[stardustastronette]

Hahaha! Poor bastard, little did he know, this would end up on youtube for the world to see! 

[FynnDynamite]

this is like gangs of new york coming true ...

[lcooke]

I love the guy hamming it up on the back of the wagon :D

[Batamon1997]

Was that a car at 27?

[Shinmeiryu]

@Batamon1997 Looks like a carriage to me.

[SouthwesternEagle]

That's a state-of-the-art high security criminal transportation & isolation unit. There is no possibility of escape.

[ckla69]

DUI, perhaps?

[hcvang]

@ckla69 more like insulting an american, looking at an american the wrong way... didnt take anything to get arrested back then, if you werent white.. think cops pulling blacks over today is bad? time that by a thousand, and you've got the 19th century law system

[isai13eme]

its the first episode of the show COPS!!! lol!

[mcdonchris]

LMAO that is too funny....and true.

[reader125]

So basically COPS ripped off of Edison.

[MyPalLennon]

see how they just hooked him on to the back of the waggon. How time has changed.

[vlcupper]

Yeah how dare they arrest somebody breaking the law. Bastards!

[johnfinbarburke]

the paddy wagon