It was Greggie and Douggie...and some of the other Hitler youth.
Posted on 07/07/2007 3:40:24 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
'He really abused me,' resident says after arrest by Orem police officer
OREM - Two days after Independence Day, 70-year-old Betty Perry experienced an ordeal she said shouldn't be happening in America.
The retired military and U.S. government employee answered the door at her home Friday morning to talk with a police officer about her bone-dry lawn and ended up getting arrested and suffering a bloody nose. "What have I done?" she asked. "I'm old now. I can't believe this."
The Orem police officer, as yet unnamed by city officials, cited Perry for violating a city ordinance with her "sadly neglected and dying landscape," which resembles dry hay.
When Perry refused to give her name and tried to walk inside to call her son, the officer tried to arrest her, police say. According to a police news release, while she was struggling, she tripped and fell on her doorstop, cutting open the bridge of her nose. But Perry maintains the officer split her nose when he hit her with the set of handcuffs he was trying to restrain her with.
"As far as I'm concerned, he really abused me - he brutally abused me," Perry said. "For what?" The officer called for backup, because he was driving a truck, and the now-handcuffed Perry was taken to a holding facility in Orem. She was not given water or allowed to wash her hands or call her son, she said.
"After being booked, supervisors became aware of the circumstances and immediately released the woman and returned her to her home on the basis that there were other options available to handle this situation besides making an arrest and holding the woman in jail," Orem police Lt. Doug Edwards wrote in the news release.
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Another hyper-inflated police uniform.
Death, Taxes, and now Water your yard
Yes he will learn to be a better Obersturmbannführer! I can't believe they would arrest an old lady over her lawn maintenance. I hope she gets a nice settlement.
(obvious sarcasm)
In south Florida you better not water your lawn or they will give you a bloody nose.
This is another of the less than 1% that needs to be fired immediately and put in the jail where he belongs.
With judgment this poor, he shouldn't be given the chance to have a "learning experience". He should be summarily dismissed from the force.
I hope she sues their Jack-Booted asses off..
But, he had a badge and a smoky bear hat......he was special.
...............
Sue their pants off.
The police can water the lawn themselves while they’re peeing on the Fourth Amendment.
This brings back memories of the “Great Water Shortage” in CA, years ago. People would actually rat you out if you were seen hosing down your driveway or having a green lawn. Some folks actually spray painted their dead lawns green!
Why didn’t the cop ask the lady if she needed help with her watering and landscape chores? Was she having trouble paying for the extra water to keep her grass green? Naaah, just another jackbooted thug who makes the rest of LE officers look bad.
Orem? Utah? Mormon? What hath Brigham wrought?
“After being booked, supervisors became aware of the circumstances and immediately released the woman and returned her to her home on the basis that there were other options available to handle this situation besides making an arrest and holding the woman in jail,” Orem police Lt. Doug Edwards wrote in the news release.
She’ll be able to hire a gardener after her attorneys get through with this police dept.
‘Closed door session’ of city council, mayor, and city attorney will be occuring real soon regarding the impending lawsuit.
I play golf sometimes with a guy who’s a retired police officer from a nice town (read nothing exciting happens, nothing to get jaded about, etc.) he would be the last guy I ever guessed was a cop until he told me.
He said he knew it was time for him to leave when all the new guys were these steroid-fueled, shaven head monsters. He tells me about these guys pulling granny over for speeding strolling up to the window, un harnessing the gun, slowly reaching down to flick off the safety before asking granny for her license, insurance and registration.
How do all these cops get away with being steroid freaks!!!! I see it all the time, I KNOW what a steroid body looks like, I know what’s natural and what’s not.
Wyatt Earp Syndrone strikes again.
In Lone Pine, CA they’d have beaten her for USING water if she HAD a lawn.
I wish Roscoe, Kevin Curry and Arne Fufkin were still around. I always enjoyed seeing them twist into pretzels in an attempt to justify any police action.
It was Greggie and Douggie...and some of the other Hitler youth.
In south Florida you better not water your lawn or they will give you a bloody nose.
My base housing manager tried to “nickel and dime” me to death with the base watering regulations. I had put out our sprinkler early (outside the official watering hours) and got ticketed. Meanwhile there were other households watering from sunrise to sunset every day (you are only allowed to water every other day based on your house number). My neighbor did not get ticketed even though they had turned on their sprinkler early and also watered on “the wrong day.”
After speaking with my First Sergeant I took a note pad and drove around the base, three days in a row, annotating addresses of “violators.” Meanwhile my first sergeant warned the housing manager that if I get one more ticket I would be bringing my chain of command and my list to his office. We would see if the rules are being enforced equally. The reasonable expectation would be that most of those households would have tickets on file.
I have no problem paying the consequences if I am in the wrong. Just don’t go enforcing rules selectively! You can tell a lot about a man by how he reacts when he is given a little authority.
I take it this is what passes for crime in Orem.
Flame away.
In the video below, the black cop shot the white kid who was unarmed and lying on the ground prone and trying to calm the obviously hysterical cop.
The cop lied and said that the kid lunged at him - the video is dark, but you can clearly see that this kid did not lunge at anything, he was terrified. The cop was a maniac and shot him in cold blood. He knows that he will get a black jury to let him go.
The kid happened to also have been a military policeman.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=547_1183537759
Welcome to the Police State.
Water your lawn b!tch!
Oh geez...and I’ve been afraid I’ll be arrested for watering my flowers.
I can hear the supervisors now: “you arrested this old woman for WHAT?????” You A$$hole! This creep does not belong on the police force.
Officer should be fired immediately and charged in some measure or another with assault on a citizen.
Absolute gutless little pr*ck....who clearly has no demeanor needed in a position of authority. However sadly, we will likely see the blue protects blue mindset come into play....and he will continue "serving" to "protect us".
“Next time, maybe you’ll remember to water your lawn!”
I agree, miscreants like this need severe punishment.
I’m guessing the lawn is only the tip of the iceberg.
The walls inside her home, probably have paint that is over 2 years old on them.
I lived in the barracks, but one weekend the Captain paid some great cash to a handful of us to do some stuff around his place...what an absolutely disgraceful dump.
Mr. Badge heavy needs a different line of work...
I’m sure some FReepers would be more than happy to send an email to the elected officials.
What, Bill Lutze is on lawn patrol, now?
Another lawsuit pending against the police. I see a violation of her cival rights as well.
What a dumbassed cop.The vetting process is sorely deficient in that police department.Lawsuit city is on the way.
Another lawsuit pending against the police. I see a violation of her cival rights as well.
Cival should be Civil but my brains spelling function is out of service,
That said, because of the decreased balance and fragile skin that tends to go with aging he might have been able to have been more careful. I don't know though. I wasn't there
I think they need to hire “old people” to arrest “old people” :’)
The bigger issue is the actual ordinance that said you have to have a green lawn!
In the city I live in they now have a law that if your grass is over 8 inches tall you can be ticketed and fined up to $500!
I have weeds that are a foot tall - will I get fined? Nobody knows. Who enforces this? Nobody knows. From what point is the 8 inches measured and does ALL the grass have to be that tall or only some of it?
It’s like we all live in gated communities with the people we elect to these offices (or are hired like a City Manager) worried about housing values. For Pete’s sake the housing values here have already tanked - can’t go anywhere but up even if the grass is two feet tall.
It’s really time to start taking a look at these silly laws and ordinances and get rid of the fools who write them, then get them off the books.
“peeing on the Fourth Amendment”
Didn’t know there still was a 4th.............
/s
I can see if it is for health/safety reasons but not for appearance. We have been having a lot of rain lately. I mowed the back, but had to to stop. I came back the next day to finish and there were high weeds already up from the mowed part.
You asked for it.
If this “officer” had tried this BS at my home, he would be room temperature.
cough-bullshit-cough.
If you lived in Wichita a couple of decades ago, you'd know...."BTK, Code Enforcement Czar" ruled the 'hood with an iron fist by day...
“I think he sends little people out into the heat.”
Yup. And there’s more and more of ‘em there, unfortunately.
Had to move back “down south” after four years up there. How’d the reunion go? I was a bit under the weather and had to miss it.
Feel free to Freepmail me, BTW...
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