Deputy Chief
Lexie Williams
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Posted on 04/15/2006 7:14:04 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
DAYTONA BEACH -- When NAACP president Cynthia Slater was arrested at Black College Reunion by sheriff's deputies earlier this month, a top ranking officer of the Daytona Beach Police Department tried to come to her rescue.
Lexie Williams, deputy police chief, ordered a sheriff's sergeant to "unarrest" Slater, but the sergeant refused, according to a sheriff's report obtained Friday by The News-Journal.
The report details Williams' apparent anger when Slater, a popular activist, was handcuffed on State Road A1A on April 1. Deputies said she interfered with a traffic stop. She was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence and is scheduled to be arraigned May 3, court records show.
Before deputies took her to a sheriff's substation on Ballough Road to finish arrest paperwork and release her on her own recognizance, they were faced with a rowdy crowd that gathered to stare, as well as four of Slater's friends who yelled at the uniformed officers, the report shows.
In addition, Slater ordered her friends to call the mayor, Williams and a local television station, the report shows. Only Williams showed up.
Minutes after Slater was handcuffed, according to the report, the deputy chief of police whizzed to her side in the golf cart he was using during the event as she stood at the 500 block of North Atlantic Avenue.
After asking Slater what happened, Williams turned his attention to Sheriff's Sgt. Michelle Newman, who had dealt with Slater.
"Are you the supervisor in charge of this mess?" Williams was quoted as saying. "This is not going to happen. She (Slater) will be unarrested."
When Newman replied that Slater was "lawfully arrested" because she failed to heed verbal warnings to leave the area where the traffic stop was made, Williams repeated: "This is not going to happen. Does your sheriff know about this?"
The sergeant explained Sheriff Ben Johnson had not been notified, but her supervisor would be, the report shows.
While Williams walked away briefly to make a call on his cell phone, Newman began telephoning her superiors, according to the report. After Williams finished his call, he repeatedly told Newman to remove the cuffs from Slater's wrists.
When Newman refused, Williams predicted Slater's arrest would spark a public disturbance. Then, according to the report, Williams walked over to Slater's group of friends and said: "Take note, this is the Sheriff's Office doing this, not Daytona Police Department."
Williams could not be reached for comment Friday.
Slater said the national office of the NAACP in Baltimore has advised her not to talk about the incident, but she said: "It will all come out."
The sheriff was unavailable for comment Friday. However, Gary Davidson, spokesman with the Sheriff's Office, said Williams' attempted intervention was an "isolated incident.
"It was regrettable," Davidson said earlier this week. "We had a difference of opinion, which is going to happen sometimes between two police agencies.
"As far as we're concerned, it's water under the bridge," Davidson said.
Williams' actions will not change the sheriff's working relationship with the Daytona Beach Police Department, Davidson said.
"Lexie has since met with the sheriff (after the incident)," Davidson said.
Earlier story on this
NAACP President Arrested ^
Posted by RedBloodedAmerican
On News/Activism ^ 04/02/2006 10:52:06 PM EDT · 52 replies · 2,505+ views
www.news-journalonline.com ^ | April 02, 2006 | By SETH ROBBINS
The local NAACP president was arrested Saturday afternoon on misdemeanor charges after an altercation with deputies after she attempted to hand a flier to the driver of a car involved in a Black College Reunion traffic stop. Cynthia Slater, president of the Volusia County-Daytona Beach Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the past six years, was charged with two counts of resisting an officer without violence, disorderly conduct and obstruction of a street. But Slater and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office have very different views on what occurred on North Atlantic Avenue during the...
It has always amazed me that there is an element of the black community that thinks that you can act any way you want if you're black, and if someone says anything about it, then it's racism.
Now I don't know about this particular case but it is certainly hard to miss the attitude of self-entightlement at times. One thing I will say however is that this attitude is most frequently demonstrated by the ignorant, the ill mannered, and by those of the liberal persuasion. I know, redundant.
Notice I said legally.
I don't expect that morons, the uneducated, or unassimilated Americans either understand that, or care.
On with the show!
I guess the arresting officer didn't recognize her on sight.
Haha!
"It has always amazed me that there is an element of the black community that thinks that you can act any way you want if you're black, and if someone says anything about it, then it's racism.
It's not "an element of", it's "elemental" because of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, IED Kennedy, the DNC, etc.
Minorities are quickly going to sink their own ship if they don't quit acting like they are special and start acting like they are Americans.
The rest of us are soon about to get fed up.
Had I been the arresting officer, I would have also arrested Dep. Chief Williams for interferance with a police officer. Let him hire a lawyer and spend his time and money explaining why he was interferring in the situation. I say good on the Dep. Sgt. who told Lexie to "buzz off", and that is where it should have stopped. Instead, Lexie had to tell the crowd that it was the sheriffs dept., not the local yokels, who had arrested the NAACP idiot who wouldn't obey a lawful order. Ain't nuttin' like reverse racism, is there? Maybe Lexie, the racist cop, thought he could get a riot started or something.
"Unarrest" = Hollyweird English.
There is another situation that happens from time to time.
It sometimes happens that you arrest someone, read them their rights, etc....a complete 10-15 at the scene of a crime. Then, information from witnesses and discovered evidence indicate that the person arrested didn't do it.
You let him/her go...no judge required.
Even if it went past that point and the subject was jailed, the district attorney can legally spring them by deciding not to prosecute and no judge is required there either.
She'll claim it's the "Cynthia McKinney Syndrome" that made her do it!
Ping!
I have been retired for many years. When I left it remained the way I was instructed at the academy. I arrest ... only a judge may free.
When loyalty to your skin color is more important than the oath you took ,the law you swore to uphold ,your nation or even right and wrong....
Affirmative action is an anathema to justice...
"The rest of us are soon about to get fed up."
ABOUT?????
Exactly.
Sheriff's Sgt. Michelle Newman has some stones on her to stand up to a Deputy Chief. You go, girl!
Ebonics!
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