Woman Arrested and Fined for Not Holding Escalator Handrail

notoriouslyconservative.com ^ | 05 18 09 | Notoriously Conservative

[Notoriously Conservative]

If true, a disgusting example of excessive police force:

A Montreal/Laval cop cuffed and dragged a university student away, throwing her in a holding cell and writing her a ticket for CDN$420 ...for failing to hold the handrail while she dug in her bag for her subway fare.

Bela Kosoian, a 38-year-old mother of two, says when she didn't hold the handrail Wednesday she was cuffed, dragged into a small holding cell and fined. "It was horrible, disgusting behaviour [by police]," said Ms. Kosoian, a 38-year-old student of international law. "I did nothing wrong. They should go find the guys who stole my tires off the balcony." Ms. Kosoian, who studies at the Université du Québec à Montreal, was riding an escalator down to catch a 5:30 p.m. subway from the suburb of Laval to an evening class downtown when she started rifling through her backpack looking for a fare. Ms. Kosoian, who grew up in Georgia when it was still part of the Soviet Union, says she didn't catch the officer's instruction to hold the rail when he first approached. When he told her again to hang on, she says she replied, "I don't have three hands." Besides, she had been sick and feared catching a new bug.

<(Image: John Morstad/For The Globe and Mail)

[RexBeach]

Wow. Good thing the escaltor didn’t break down. She would have been stranded! Think of that for a moment!

[bolobaby]

“Methinks there is more to the story.”

You and me both.

[Puppage]

Lotsa fecal matter on them thar handrails....

[SES1066]

Personally, to me it sounds more like a ‘revenue enhancement’ operation given the sizes of the initial and subsequent fines. Given that is was in French-Canada can someone provide us with (IIRC) Napoleon’s words when he sentenced a General to death in order ‘... to encourage the others’?

[Hulka]

You got that right.

I ride daily the Wash DC Metro and the escalators are foul and, yes, sometimes sticky. Yuck.

It is getting worse each day. I blame Dear Leader.

[kklein]

Yes, if you read the whole story, the victim argued with the officer when she was “ordered” to hold the handrail, and refused to identify herself when he wanted to write a citation. The officer was drunk with power, and could not stand to be disboyed by one of the sheep. This theme seems to be popping up a lot lately.

[Tamar1973]

Maybe around the same time it became illegal to drive a car without a seatbelt.

[never4get]

the victim argued with the officer when she was “ordered” to hold the handrail, and refused to identify herself when he wanted to write a citation.

Geez, the world is so much safer with cops hang'n near escalators to stop those horrible criminals not holding on the hand rails (sarcasm). As far as I'm concerned she refused to identify herself to a complete jacka$$, and of course the jacka$$ got angry and knew he had to teach her a lesson.

[GreenHornet]

You gotta nip this sort of thing in the bud. Nip It In The...BUD!!!

Citizen's Arrest! Citizen's Arrest!

[bolobaby]

If you read the whole story, you’ll understand that you are really only getting the woman’s side of the story.

I’m not saying that it is not the truth, I just believe that there is probably more to this story than this libtards version of the truth.

[calex59]

If you read the whole story, you’ll understand that you are really only getting the woman’s side of the story. I’m not saying that it is not the truth, I just believe that there is probably more to this story than this libtards version of the truth.

Yeah, there were police apologist in the USSR too. We have a large share of apologist on FR, even when the police are in another country.

[woollyone]

“...if more of the public applauded and SUPPORTED the Police when they do lay their hands (or their feet) and reserve their criticism for the perp who breaks the law, perhaps perps will think twice before they endanger the public and act like the arse wipes they are.”

So, according to your previous logic, should the police have kicked this “asswipe” woman in the face too?

[verity]

This would not happen in Utah. ;-)

[bolobaby]

I just know that:

a) People lie and distort the truth for their own reasons
b) The press loves to twist stories
c) This particular story has only this liberal chick’s side of the story
d) Liberals love to demonize the police

I’m sure she’s leaving out some important detail. Remember that airport story where the woman dumped liquid all over the ground in a little tantrum? Everybody was on the woman’s side until the video was released of her acting like a child and creating a public hazard.

I’ll wait for all the facts to come out before I declare that this was simply the police abusing their power.