South Carolina Ping
Send FReepmail to join or leave this list.
Keep up with what our Congresscritters (House and Senate) are doing. Sign up for the free MegaVote email service here.
Posted on 07/17/2013 6:11:25 AM PDT by Gamecock
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The head of the SC NAACP, Lonnie Randolph, was arrested Friday night at a Five Points dry cleaners after a disagreement with employees.
According to the incident report, Columbia police were called to Tripp’s Fine Cleaner at 830 Harden Street around 7:15 p.m. Friday.
An employee told officers that Randolph, 63, refused to pay his bill, refused to leave the premises after being asked to do so several times and then began to act erratically.
Once Randolph was escorted out of the business by police officers, the employee told officers the manager wanted Randolph banned from the business, at which point Randolph reportedly became agitated and acted erratically. According to the incident report, he raised his voice and resisted officers’ attempts to move him to and into a patrol car. After a brief tussle, which included an officer kneeing Randolph in the stomach twice and slapping him on the chest once, Randolph was put in the patrol car.
Paramedics were called to the scene and took Randolph to Palmetto Health Richland, where he declined treatment.
Interim Police Chief Reuben Santiago, who was informed of developments, told officers to ticket Randolph and release him. City manager Teresa Wilson, also informed as the incident unfolded, responded to the scene.
Efforts to Reach Randolph and his attorney, Joe McCullough, late Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Not any lawyer, an expensive lawyer.
Manic-depression? Traumatic brain injury? Oppositional defiant disorder? This gets interesting.
BINGO!
Didn’t obama promise free laundry service along with the phones? I thiink he should file charges for the laundry employees being racist!
I can hear Obama now: “The police acted stupidly.”
You all do know that this is Columbia. What do you expect?
South Carolina Ping
Send FReepmail to join or leave this list.
Keep up with what our Congresscritters (House and Senate) are doing. Sign up for the free MegaVote email service here.
Did Goldberg ever run for office?
Court Rules for Cleaners In $54 Million Pants Suit
The D.C. administrative law judge who sued his neighborhood dry cleaners for $54 million over a pair of lost pants found out yesterday what he's going to get.
Nothing.
Hardly a surprise, the verdict was nonetheless a media spectacle of the first order.
Journalists from around the world descended on a strip mall in far Northeast Washington for one more news conference and a last look at the place where it all began between the proprietors of Custom Cleaners, Soo and Jin Chung, and a judge named Roy Pearson.
It was the case that people couldn't stop talking about, and yesterday, the judge who heard it, Judith Bartnoff, finally had her say, rejecting Pearson's claim that he was defrauded by the Chungs and their "Satisfaction Guaranteed" sign.
no tickie....no laundry....
“Don’t you mean Reuben Greenberg?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Greenberg";
Of course I did. I can’t believe I wrote Goldberg—I guess I temporarily confused his name with Rube Goldberg’s.
And to answer Impy’s question, I don’t believe he ever ran for office. He was a criminologist, not a politician.
Ah that’s explains why I could find nothing on “Reuben Goldberg”, only Rube.
I’m getting an idea for a buddy cop film with a bunch a cops with names that don’t traditionally go with their physical appearance.
Baseball players whose names don’t match their appearance form part of the “Reggie Cleveland All-Stars,” named after the white, Canadian pitcher from the ‘70s and ‘80s. Obvious members of the “team” include 1990s Red Sox outfielder Troy O’Leary (who is black) and Padres SS Khalil Greene (who is white).
Thanks for the update.
That is, one of the most awesome things I’ve ever heard.
I nominate Robert Griffin III, when I first heard of him I was thinking preppy White kid.
UPDATE:
He had low blood sugar from his diabtes, so charges were dropped.
???
having diabetes makes it okay??
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.