When members of the Internet Party of Ukraine, a fringe politcal group whose people dress as Star Wars characters, showed up at a polling station in Odessa Sunday, they were confronted by Ukranian police.
One guy dressed as Chewbacca was arrested for not having a driver's license. Several videos spread online show the Wookiee, with an Imperial Stormtrooper riding shotgun, getting out of his cool car when officers asked for his ID.
Chewbacca was subdued by several police, arrested and fined the equivalent of $7.50 for "malignant resistance to lawful requirements of a police officer," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
This isn't the first time viral activism was done under the banner of Star Wars. Lenin's statue in Ukraine was recently transformed into Darth Vader rather than teaering it down when a new law banned communist symbols from being displayed publicly.
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