Agreed, it’s totally inappropriate to arrest a person for nothing more than foot tapping. I don’t care what it signals to the cop, an idiot (the standard for idiot being, someone who’d plead guilty and quit the Senate if he thinks he’s innocent) might just have tapped his foot to act silly, or because he was tipsy, or for some other reason he didn’t want to admit at the time. One shouldn’t make an arrest over it, much less surrender a career.
But Craig had the choices and if he is truly innocent he is abysmally stupid and/or cowardly.
If he’d just said “see you in court” they would most likely have dropped all charges.
“might just have tapped his foot to act silly, or because he was tipsy”
Or because his leg was falling asleep. I tap my feet all the time when I’m bored, because sitting still in a boring place is, well, boring. When I first heard about this I thought it was a caught in the act type deal, and had some heated words for Senator Craig... Now I’m not so sure. What’s done is done, but it bothers me to think a politicians career could be ended so easily.