Posted on 04/04/2006 3:23:42 AM PDT by freepatriot32
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Where is this?
San Bernardino California
"She could have been taken somewhere, but she turned it down," Mendenhall said. "If she were a juvenile we would have made arrangements to get her home. But if it's an adult we can't force them against their will."
Mendenhall said the woman initially waited in the back seat of a squad car while police called a ride for her. The ride didn't show, and the woman decided to walk to a pay phone, Mendenhall said.
Why can't they just ride around and look good, instead of creating trouble for people?
They go after the folks who don't shoot back...
WTF?
This guy was arrested for burgurlary and released.
Then he gets arrested for rape and released.
Sounds like a judge should needs to lose his/her job.
Obviously they did leave her stranded, they towed the car in which she was a passenger around midnight. I have a distrust of police in general. She may have thought she could get a ride, and couldn't. We have some really low life "rouge" cops here in Alabama.
Not to mention the catch and release of the perp, which contributed directly to the assault. Police are guilty and the judges are guilty, they can spin it all they want but they contributed to this assault.
Stupid Ba$tards..........my son had his truck burn up on a freeway on his way home from up north.....the police officers took him to the local town, and dumped him off there....his shoes, coat, wallet and cell phone were destroyed in the fire. It was 40 degrees out, he had no shoes, it was raining, he had no coat, and they would not allow him into the police station. It took me over an hour to get to him, and some nice people in a restaurant let him stay in there, use their phone to call me, and gave him some coffee to warm up....i do not give a crap about "correct" procedure.....to protect and to serve overrides the so called "correct" procedure....so does common sense.
How about taking her home?
The story said bail was set at a Million bucks, I doubt he made bail on the rape charge.
Impounding the vehicle she was in doomed her to her fate... arrest the tow-truck operator!
That'll work. He was probably paying off the police for the tow job anyway.
It was a given that many here would castigate the police. If we just did away with them we could all live in peace and harmony, while singing kumbyah.
"Police said the incident unfolded about 11:20 p.m. Thursday after officers stopped the car in which the woman was a passenger. The driver of the car, who was not identified, was arrested on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia, and the car was impounded.",
it was all worth it! Blackbird.
If we did away with them we could get guns and shoot the bad guys ourselves.
hrmn.
If the police can prove (via a signed waiver or dash-cam records) that the woman was offered conveyance and refused to avail herself of it, they are in the clear on this.
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