You asked for it.
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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“peeing on the Fourth Amendment”
Didn’t know there still was a 4th.............
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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...
Really? That does not however give the police the right to abuse their power. She was in her home for crying out loud! The police officer in question is an idiot! He should be put on unpaid suspension and given time to think about his "field interviewing" technique.
Incredible video clip. The cop did ask the “suspect” to get up and then shot him.
Where did this happen?
Those memories will be relived this year, damm delta smelt.
Properly supervised, of course. The citizen would be encouraged to watch him closely to make sure he did a good job and the officer of the watch would come by each Saturday to make sure the citizen was satisfied.
IMHO, this would be a lot better than having the old lady sue the officer — which would just incur more debt on the fellow citizens of the city. And, if this officer is indeed salvageable it will reinforce in his mind the truth that the police ARE INDEED the servants of the citizenry, not the other way around.
I know it will never happen — not these days — but it’s still a nice fantasy.
She had already been warned, but they didn't have her name?
The officer was probably sent to give her a ticket. It says she refused to give him her name and walked off.
She didn't walk off. She walked back through her *own* door way.
You know, I can't imagine getting physical with an old woman at her OWN home, over something as trivial as her OWN lawn or lack of it.
I don't like her playing the age card.
LOL!
Hmmmm. Don't know, but it was a 70 year old "she" in this case. Police are supposed to use "discrecion" in any case, I believe. Correct?
You mean like this guy?
This photo shows a police officer shooting a bear, moments before an animal control officer on the scene was about to shoot the bear with a tranquilizer gun.
There was a lot of controversy over the killing of this bear; witnesses on the scene said that contrary to police claims, the bear was quiet and not "about to charge."
Video here. If you watch it you'll see a lot of police CYA going on, but no evidence the bear was about to charge before the animal control officer could get him tranquilized.
I'd bet they quit teaching that at police academies years ago.
Common sense in law enforcement seems rare nowadays.
As long as they save megee creek, and the trout I haven’t met this year.
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