So an officer tried to step in and tell them to calm it down, and in the process, their drummer, Jiro Yamaguchi, inadvertently hit a cop with a drum. All right, well, that's not going to go well. He was trying to, like, turn it around.

So, you know, it's on 6th Street during South by Southwest, so there's a bunch of people with cameras around. So the reality of the situation came out pretty fast, particularly that the police acted inappropriately and that Yamaguchi wasn't trying to hit this cop with his drum.

This way, Alex can create the impression of a trap being set by the state, where they get you to do something with one hand and then punish you for doing it with the other. The other thing Alex is misrepresenting is the issue with the drummer. He did hit an officer with his drum, but it was totally an accident. Alex is pretending this isn't the case because it makes it easier for him to sell his story when the party you're supposed to be pulling for didn't even do the thing that they're accused of.

To sidestep any of the possible audience response like that, Alex includes the preemptive answer in the form of the story about the fire marshal imploring them to do the Congo line.