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Suit: Detained woman forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh
Houston Chronicle ^ | 10/05/2011 | By MIKE TOLSON, HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Posted on 10/06/2011 7:15:15 AM PDT by redreno

Talk about your Monday from hell. Not only did Bridgett Nickerson Boyd's car break down on her way to work, but when she pulled over to the side of the freeway, a sheriff's deputy named Mark Goad pulled behind her, wrote her a ticket for driving on the shoulder, decided to arrest her, followed her to the hospital when her suddenly racing heart prompted a call to paramedics, then took her into custody again after she was treated by doctors and finally drove her to jail.

To make matters worse, Boyd claims in a lawsuit that the handcuffs were put on her wrists painfully tight and that she was forced to listen to conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh "make derogatory comments about black people" all the way to the jail. Boyd is African-American.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; deputy; rush; rushlimbaugh; texas
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To: peteyd

Its easy enough to check the show transcripts from the date she was arrested. I hope they do because this smells like Crystal Mangum and Tawana Brawley.


41 posted on 10/06/2011 7:45:01 AM PDT by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Uh, trust me.............he didn’t.


42 posted on 10/06/2011 7:45:11 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: sphinx
professionally indignant

LOL, I gotta borrow that!

43 posted on 10/06/2011 7:47:05 AM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

He was probably talking about getting a job. ;-)


44 posted on 10/06/2011 7:47:24 AM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: redreno
HEE HEE: this is so funny, I love it. Poor woman was getting a FREE education and she didn't even realize it.

I often work on my rental properties myself, and always have the radio tuned to RUSH, in walks a black or a YUT who I know would be a liberal, or I have a black repairman there, they have to listen. ROFL.

It's my radio, and my space.

45 posted on 10/06/2011 7:49:16 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: BitWielder1

I think if I broke down and got a ticket for driving on the shoulder, I would get pretty belligerant too! Some of these cops get badge heavy and forget who they work for.


46 posted on 10/06/2011 7:52:33 AM PDT by tuckrdout ( A fool vents all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back. Prov.29:11)
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To: redreno
from FACEBOOK:


Bridgett Nickerson Boyd
47 posted on 10/06/2011 7:53:08 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Tainan

I am wiping off my screens...


48 posted on 10/06/2011 7:59:21 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: redreno

49 posted on 10/06/2011 8:00:04 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: windcliff

ping


50 posted on 10/06/2011 8:01:04 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: redreno

It’s official! She’s GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


51 posted on 10/06/2011 8:02:28 AM PDT by RexBeach (There is no such thing as a good tax - Winston Churchill)
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To: redreno
Hey I can relate and sympathize with this woman.

Hitchhiking in 1971 I was picked up in Santa Barbara and rode with a guy all the way to San Luis Obispo, his 8-track tape play was stuck on one track and I listened to the same four Ringo Starr songs the whole trip. It was a traumatic experience that haunts me to this day.

52 posted on 10/06/2011 8:03:06 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
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To: justlurking; AnAmericanAbroad
She didn't "move to the shoulder". Actually reading the article you find that she was driving on the shoulder (which isn't legal, especially in a car laying down a smoke screen for all the other cars on the highway). You make it sound like he pulled up behind a disabled car and arrested the "poor woman".
53 posted on 10/06/2011 8:11:02 AM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

My guess is that the officer pulled over to help her and found out she had warrants.


54 posted on 10/06/2011 8:11:13 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: Michael.SF.

Count yourself lucky. Had that happened about 6 years later, you could’ve been stuck listening to the Bay City Rollers.


55 posted on 10/06/2011 8:12:06 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: penelopesire

It’s possible, by then why would the magistrate dismiss the whole case? If she had outstanding warrants, I don’t think that would happen. But it is a possibility.


56 posted on 10/06/2011 8:17:13 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: Ghengis; MinuteGal
The cruiser video may also have the Rush program on in the background. Pull transcripts from the times in question.

That's a good idea but a number of stations across the country don't carry the program live. Her 'exposure' could have been from a taped program. Still...easy enough to make inquiries IF one knows the station doing the broadcast.

57 posted on 10/06/2011 8:18:27 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Attacking Wall Street because youÂ’re jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because youÂ’re hungr)
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To: redreno
forced to listen to conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh "make derogatory comments about black people"

I seriously doubt Rush did this. She appears overly sensitive.

It is pretty funny, though, that she sued over this.

58 posted on 10/06/2011 8:21:27 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: Tainan

Guilty


59 posted on 10/06/2011 8:21:56 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Obama is a Communist, a Muslim, and an illegal alien)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

I’d forgotten that they had such big hair.


60 posted on 10/06/2011 8:25:21 AM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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