Man Arrested for Public Consumption of Iced Tea Urged to Take a “Deal” from Prosecutors

D.C. Clothesline ^ | 03-27-2014 | Kimberly Paxton

[Night Hides Not]

Poorly written and ill-conceived laws become tools of oppression.

You just described Obamacare.

[sport]

We know that, but there is a large segment on this forum that worship said armed thugs and everything they do.

[tired&retired]

This is the same prosecutor who has held Joshua Eisenhauer in prison for over two years without a trial and with no treatment for his severe PTSD after a PTSD flashback where police shot him 4 times while in his home alone after smashing down his door in the middle of the night while he was asleep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvr8SBu0dLg

The same police officer who shot Staff Sgt. Eisenhauer shot and killed another Staff Sgt. in the Warrior Transition Unit at Ft Bragg shortly after shooting Joshua.

[sport]

Ping. No one describes these incidents as eloquently as you. bobby.

[ChildOfThe60s]

The whole point of an under cover officer is that you don’t know he is a cop.

Not at the point where the under cover cop decides to start exercising his power as a cop. At that point he must identify himself as a cop. Otherwise any old jackass could come up to you and threaten you.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Law enforcement arrogance again.
I’m surprised the “cop” didn’t shoot him.

[RatRipper]

Poorly written and ill-conceived laws become tools of oppression.

Unfortunately, it's not an accident

[kiryandil]

Just wow. Another peasant made to “assume the position” at the feet of the Owners’ gunthugs...

[Marie]

Once he approaches you and begins to make demands, he’d better identify himself. The whole point of the ‘resisting’ charge is that a person is resisting authority. If they don’t know they’re dealing with an authority figure, how can their behavior be considered wrong?

If I’m outside smoking a cigarette and a random person comes up to me and accuses me of smoking weed in public, then demands to examine the cigarette, I’d tell them to go to hell. If a *cop* does the same thing, I’d allow him to examine the cigarette.

[skinkinthegrass]

please, remind me NOT to drink A&W Root Beer in NC..
(brown plas. bot. like an beer)/*ACODPWB, no doubt.
JJ/AS, Are just waiting for this paycheck/meal ticket..

*a case of drinking peacefully while black.

[sport]

It was an honest on his part mistake. It won’t happen again.

[kiryandil]

The one thing I dont get about this story is the trespassing charge. If it was public lot how could that be a charge? Is something missing here?

The law is in their mouth. They needed an extra charge against the peasant, so they looked it up in The Big Book.

Some peasant in Michigan got charged the same way for using free WiFi while sitting in his car on a lunch break.

The gunthug went back to the station and went over the lawbooks with the local persecutor till they found a charge to hang on the guy.

This is the reason the Owners keep passing more and more laws every day.

Read The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp:

http://www.stentorian.com/politics/freepigs.html

[skinkinthegrass]

sounds like the entire system has been occupied/corrupted by *insert name here*
the electorate/citizenry is getting exactly what type of justice they voted for.
brings to mind, The Battle of Athens, TN. (1946)

[kiryandil]

The whole point of an under cover officer is that you don’t know he is a cop.

Some gunthug who pulled this crap on me, I'd get to know REAL well - surreptitiously, of course...

[kiryandil]

One officer had me face down on the ground

There would be consequences...

[newnhdad]

There is more to this story but I’m not sure any of the background (drinking in public, purple drank, loitering and attitude) justifies the action. After the facts became clear, the charges should have been dropped and the local policy of allowing plain-clothes to moonlight like this should be reviewed. The security agent could have dealt with the situation better.

[AD from SpringBay]

This sounds like one of them there bags of absolute, 100%, bull-$hit. Officer Stop-Resisting didn’t have his costume on at the time and wasn’t expecting someone to not obey. Is the property owner pressing the trespassing charge?

[Lazamataz]

America is a Soviet client state.

[heartwood]

An undercover officer has to identify himself before he starts issuing orders. In this situation, he needs to present his ID.

[hal ogen]

Many cops are thugs...not all...but many.