Mimes dont talk. Pleading the 5th is invoking your right to remain silent. But he's speaking it instead of miming in which would have taken ten more panels but been much better.
Also for more context cops in the USA arrest people unjustly.
Courts have admitted the paradoxical nature of the right to remain silent – an individual must verbalize that they are invoking their right to remain silent.
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I don't know enough USA to understand this.
Mimes dont talk. Pleading the 5th is invoking your right to remain silent. But he's speaking it instead of miming in which would have taken ten more panels but been much better.
Also for more context cops in the USA arrest people unjustly.
Well, they did say that they were a shitty mime
Yea, that's the joke I guess...
The mime is actually doing the right thing here, due to an oddity in US law:
https://www.justia.com/criminal/procedure/miranda-rights/right-to-silence/
He didn’t mime it because then he would not have been a shitty mime, which is why he’s under arrest in the first place.