Karlson is bewildered by the whole ordeal, but it turns out that the facility he is being evacuated from is really a restaurant—specifically, a Chinese restaurant.
He yells out to the cops, “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!” as they wrestle with him. I need to know the fee. Consuming food? A mouth-watering Chinese dinner? “Take your fingers off my penis!”
The cops mistook Karlson for “some international criminal, a Hungarian who used to rob restaurants,” he said in an interview with LADbible made years later.
“They thought I was him… which I’m obviously not,” he said. As you can see in the video, they swooped in and took my freedom away.
“I knew the cops hated me so I thought they might have tried to grab me for something I did not do.” The news broke today (8 August) that the internet celebrity passed away on Wednesday evening, 7 August.
Noting the news, writer Chris Reason wrote: “Mr Democracy Manifest has died.” This was written more than three decades ago, when the arrest had already taken place.
