"Kony 2012" Filmaker arrested for Jerking off in public and vandalizing cars.
 

Ruh Roh!!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/ko...205649394.html

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Jason Russell, the filmmaker behind the mega-viral "Kony 2012" documentary, was arrested in San Diego on Thursday night, NBC reported, citing the San Diego Police Department.

Russell, 33, "was taken into custody after he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something," NBC's San Diego affiliate reported, citing San Diego Police Department spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown.

The San Diego Police Department's Brown did not immediately return two messages left Friday from Yahoo News.

The co-founder of the San Diego-based advocacy group Invisible Children was detained on San Diego's Pacific Beach "acting very strange" the NBC report said.

Russell's 30-minute documentary on Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army became a surprise mega viral hit, receiving over 80 million viewers since its release last week. But the film has also kicked up a backlash of criticism against the group, ranging from how Invisible Children spends its finances to whether it cut corners with the facts in order to create a more compelling film about a more than two-decade old Central African conflict.

But Invisible Children has also found many prominent defenders of its work, from members of Congress to President Barack Obama, who sent 100 U.S. special forces to Uganda last fall to search for Kony.

"I think that these guys are getting mercilessly picked apart by a bunch of intellectual elites who spend their days tweeting but never trending," Cameron Hudson, former Bush White House Africa hand, told Yahoo News last week. "If their aim is to raise awareness, they have done that in spades"

UPDATE 1:59 p.m. Police said Russell was cooperative when they arrived, and they took him to a hospital. NBC San Diego also had the statement from Invisible Children on what it called a personal health issue:

Jason Russell was unfortunately hospitalized yesterday suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition. He is now receiving medical care and is focused on getting better. The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, Jason especially, and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday. Jason’s passion and his work have done so much to help so many, and we are devastated to see him dealing with this personal health issue. We will always love and support Jason, and we ask that you give his entire family privacy during this difficult time.

Shit like this is what gives ngo's a bad name.

Someone over did it!

This is obviously a guy that knows how to party.

Someone mistook him for Ron Howard and called him "Opie" and he went completely apeshit... :winkwink:

Good, that guy's an asshole. Half of the documentary was his self-centered, self-important rambling to pump up his own ego. I couldn't tell if it was about how great of a person he was supposed to be, or about Joseph Kony the criminal.

If you think about it, it's very fitting. Now that the message is out everyone can see what an idiot he really is.

:1orglaugh

Of course he was "dehydrated".

Jerking off in public is thirsty work I'll wager.

If he really wanted to stop kony he'd get a fucking ak and shot the guy, can't be that hard to find a dude surrounded by kids.