ACTION alert: Dance, go to jail (Flint, MI)

You go out to a local club on Saturday night. Someone at City Hall doesn't like the musicians, and sends the Constabulary, who order all patrons to the floor at gunpoint, and begin systematic cavity searches. Nothing is found on you, so you're released, but with charges carrying 6 months in jail and a $500 fine, for being in the wrong place.

Greece under the Colonels? no. Czechoslovakia under Soviet occupation? guess again. Flint Michigan, March 19, 2005 under Bush and Granholm.

The raid on Club What's Next was conducted by Flint's Special Operations and Crime Area Target Team units, along with the Flint Area Narcotics Group and the Genesee County Sheriff's Posse.

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UpdateFlint Journal coverage

FLINT - What started as a night of fun ended with handcuffs and strip searches for Flint resident Nathan Boisclair and 129 other music fans. Boisclair, who works as a disc jockey in clubs and at parties using the name Halluci-Nate, was one of 130 people arrested Sunday morning when local police raided Club What's Next, 2511 W. Pasadena Ave. Boisclair was on the bill to DJ at the Saturday night party, billed as "Getting Lucky," but police stormed into the club at 1:40 a.m. Sunday before he had a chance to perform. ... Camp and Boisclair said they were lined up against the club's wall, handcuffed for more than an hour, taken in groups into the club's bathrooms and strip searched by police who were looking for drugs.