Posted on 03/27/2014 5:22:39 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
So, it’s a warm day, and you’re standing in a parking lot, drinking a refreshing can of iced tea.
Suddenly, a random dude walks up and demands your beverage. You show him that it is in fact iced tea and that you aren’t publicly intoxicated. He tells you to give him the can and you say no, figuring this stranger can get his own iced tea.
This is exactly what happened to rapper Christopher “Xstrav” Beatty, who was handcuffed and arrested by Officer Rick Libero of the Cumberland County Alcoholic Beverage Control Law Enforcement for drinking a can of Arizona iced tea in the parking lot of a liquor store in Fayetteville, North Carolina last April. Luckily for Beatty, a friend was right there, capturing the arrested on his camera. It’s also important to note that Officer Libero did NOT immediately identify himself as a police officer.
One would think that with the entire debacle on video that Beatty’s plight would have ended shortly after this incident. One would be incorrect. Beatty was charged with trespassing and resisting arrest, and is being offered a “deal” by prosecutors. (Is it an election year? This wouldn’t be the first prosecutor to “crack down” for a ridiculous reason in order to win fame and garner votes.)
Let’s be sure we are 100% clear on this.
THEY WANT A MAN WHO IS GUILTY OF DRINKING ICED TEA AND NOT GOING AWAY AT THE ORDER OF AN (AT THE TIME) UNIDENTIFIED MAN TO TAKE A PLEA BARGAIN.
According to a court document, the deal would punish Beatty with probation and community service on misdemeanor allegations that he was trespassing and resisted a public officer.
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From your computer to God’s Iphone!
My neck of the woods. But cop lovers will continue to attack others as cop haters, without ever questioning why so many have lost respect for cops.
Until he comes up to you and asks you to hand over your can of tea. At that point he needs to indentify himself, if he doesn’t you have every right to tell him to take a hike. The officer did not i.d. himself. If someone walks up to you and wants your drink will you just turn it over?
Even if he had identified himself, he had no probable cause to molest or harass the citizen in any way. Drinking from an ice tea can, without other facts, does not create PC to believe that there is alcohol in the can. The officer could perhaps walk up to him and ask, but the citizen is entitled to tell the officer to take a hike. In America, circa 2008, anyway. Oh, how I miss that country!
lol....yeah..may ass would have been kicked had I even passed gas.
That was my point. But UC cops tend to forget that just because they know they are a cop doesn’t mean WE know it.
In Wonderland, nothing is ever as it seems. He wasn't arrested for drinking iced tea. He was arrested for dissing "the man." The pr!ck wearing his authority like an overcoat wasn't about to back down, once the contact had been initiated.
Is that kinda like absurd at a high decibel level? ;-)
a more appropriate term is to shove it up their asses so hard and far they cough up paper clips
I used to work in the county parks dept as a kid - I smoked Lucky Strike filterless because the summer help wouldn’t bum them - I’d twist the ends to keep the tobacco off my tongue -one day while mowing, the County Superintendent drove by - stopped his car and came over and actually removed it from my mouth just to check ,(it looked like a joint) - he never said a word - just handed it back and walked away
Im sorry to say i believe your story completely.
:-)
I don’t understand it either
http://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByArticle/Chapter_14/Article_22B.html
the abc store appears to be at 5091-C Morganton Rd
Fayetteville
google maps shows a vewrizon wireless store next door and a fed ex store,,
who told him to leave and when and were they authorized?
this whole thing looks bad of course we are only seeing one side of the story.
I don’t think there was probable cause to take the can from him.IMO
It gets smaller every year. I've seen quite a few conversions over the past decade.
Orange or Polk County?
English is a living language.
The whole point of an under cover officer is that they are there to observe without you knowing it.
Did this officer observe Beatty opening the can? If so, did he observe Beatty adding something to the virgin can?
Did the officer arrive after the can was oponed? Did he observe Beatty acting in an intoxicated manner?
Or did he simply observe a black man standing around in a parking lot drinking something from a can and make an assumption?
-PJ
I’ll take Door #3, PJ!
Lutz area.
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