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Texas mom sues police after arrest for allowing kids to play outside
The Daily Caller ^ | 09/19/12 | The Daily Caller

Posted on 09/19/2012 2:36:56 PM PDT by sirchtruth

Police arrested a Texas mom for allowing her children to play outside last week, after a neighbor reported to police that the kids were riding scooters around a cul de sac.

Tammy Cooper, who was arrested for child endangerment, insists she was watching her children from a lawn chair in her front yard.

Now, Cooper is suing the La Porte Police Department, the arresting officer and the neighbor who made the call.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: kids; mom; outside
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To: sirchtruth
Interesting that this took place in La Porte, near the site of the San Jacinto monument, which commemorates those who fought to throw off a tyrannical government.


21 posted on 09/19/2012 3:25:42 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Sequoyah101
I hope the family gets wealthy at the expense of the city of LaPorte, Harris County and the “neighbor”...

She's asking for damages, 7k! Legal fees, figures! What's the point in that, to embarrass the dept and neighbor?

...but now Cooper is suing for damages, $7,000 in legal fees.

22 posted on 09/19/2012 3:26:29 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: Darksheare

You should have had your insufferable neighbor arrested for cruelty to animals.


23 posted on 09/19/2012 3:27:16 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: SeaHawkFan

No, La Porte is not a liberal area (I work in Deer Park). But my first impression was since when has La Porte TX become part of Minneapolis. This is typical of control freak behavior exhibited by Minnestoopidans.


24 posted on 09/19/2012 3:33:03 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is the operational wing of CPUSA.)
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To: sirchtruth

>> What’s the point in that, to embarrass the dept and neighbor?

If that is her intention... then I hope it works.


25 posted on 09/19/2012 3:35:48 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: sirchtruth

Go girl, go!

It’s time all this stool pidgeon BS came to an end.


26 posted on 09/19/2012 3:37:53 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Fred Hayek

Please re-read my post.

I live in Baytown.


27 posted on 09/19/2012 3:39:00 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: ken in texas
According to the article the mother said she was sitting in a lawn chair in the front yard keeping an eye on them and the neighbor that called the police isn’t talking. Lots of finger pointing in this situation.

The problem here is obviously the arrest. Cooper was arrested for child endangerment. A warning would have sufficed.

28 posted on 09/19/2012 3:40:21 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: brent13a

>> I’ve been to many a calls where a child was hit by a car or truck etc when they were playing around and the parents were “supervising”. <<

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I’d place the blame on the inattentive drivers for those cases.

Residential neighborhoods are for the people that live there.


29 posted on 09/19/2012 3:41:24 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: sirchtruth
Dumbass neighbor, officer, and Police Dept. -

The LaPorte PD is far worse than dumb. I was there late one night and heard all this loud cussing going on. I walked down the hall to the breakroom and there were about a half dozen officers playing poker and getting drunk as skunks. Empty beer cans were scattered everywhere.

I asked if they could please hold down the profanity because there were ladies in the building. One of them told me that if I didn't like it to close the f***ing door.

I did.

30 posted on 09/19/2012 3:44:12 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: skinndogNN

They were 6 and 9 y.o.


31 posted on 09/19/2012 3:45:42 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SeaHawkFan

As I said, LaPorte is not a liberal area, which means the same as hardly a liberal area, as you so stated. But what is reported here is just like the idiocy that I have seen in my ten years in the leftist toilet called Minnecraponus. The lefties in Minnecraponus make a Texas hardshell Baptist seem like a laissez faire libertarian. In that city, if I parked in front of someone’s house on a public street to go to a restaurant, the resident would go ballistic and call the cops (who can’t be bothered with the gang shootings, but will get on the case of anyone who hurts a lefties feeeeeeliiiiings straightaway).


32 posted on 09/19/2012 3:46:44 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is the operational wing of CPUSA.)
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To: sirchtruth

When I was five I walked a mile to the train station to meet my dad when he arrived home from work. The only problem was I got there at 3:30 and train didn’t arrive until 6:30.

Some old man who got involved told me the train wasn’t coming for another three hours and offered to give me a ride home, which he did.

I’m convinced the guy was an angel because my face could have easily ended up on a milk carton.


33 posted on 09/19/2012 3:48:09 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: brent13a

These kids were in a cul-de-sac with mom sitting in a lawn chair watching.


34 posted on 09/19/2012 3:49:13 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Fiji Hill

Should have, but it was enough to finally be rid of her.
We sat on our front porch for several hours a day for three days after she was gone.
And commented at the lack of police presence.


35 posted on 09/19/2012 3:57:06 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: colorado tanker

My mom never “supervised” my outdoor play. Half the time she didn’t know where I was.”

I never supervised my children’s outdoor play but most everyone in the neighborhood had kids and all played mom to any of them if it was needed, including sending them home if they misbehaved or passing out bandages if needed. We also had two Black labs and one of them stayed with each child all the time. Kids used to really get upset when they were trying to play ball and one of the dogs would take the ball and run home with it.

In this day and age I would probably be labeled an unfit mother.


36 posted on 09/19/2012 4:03:09 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: sirchtruth

I could be deep up in the forest and when it was time to get home my dad would blow the air horns on his motorcycle. You could hear that sound for miles. BTW - I was only about 7 or 8 at the time.


37 posted on 09/19/2012 4:03:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("OF COURSE I TALK TO MYSELF - Sometimes I need an expert opinion")
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To: All

Since when is it against the law for kids to play outside????


38 posted on 09/19/2012 4:05:27 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: SkyDancer

airhorns on a motorcycle??

as in a big rig or train horn??


39 posted on 09/19/2012 4:10:09 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL
Motorcycle Air Horns
40 posted on 09/19/2012 4:13:52 PM PDT by deport
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