Your papers.....are not in order....
Posted on 06/30/2014 2:17:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
TEMPE, Ariz. (CBS Las Vegas) - An Arizona State University English professor is claiming self-defense against a campus police officer who slammed her to the front of a police car last month.
Dr. Ersula Ore was walking near campus when she was stopped by an officer while crossing College Avenue near Fifth Street.
“The reason I’m talking to you right now is because you are walking in the middle of the street,” Officer Stewart Ferrin said in a video recording obtained by KTVK. “Let me see your ID or you will be arrested for failing to provide ID.”
“Are you serious?” Ore asked.
“Yes, I am serious. That is the law,” Ferrin replied.
The professor stated that she was trying to cross College Avenue like several other people around her in an attempt to avoid construction, a police report explained.
“I never once saw a single solitary individual get pulled over by a cop for walking across a street on a campus, in a campus location. Everybody has been doing this because it is all obstructed. That’s the reason why,” Ore told the officer. “But you stop me in the middle of the street to pull me over and ask me, ‘Do you know what this is? This is a street.’ ”
Ferrin asked her if she knew that it was street. Before Ore could finish her statement, he demanded that she put her hands behind her back.
“Don’t touch me,” Ore said. “Get your hands off me.”
The officer demanded for her to comply again.
“Put your hand behind your back. I’m going to slam you on this car. Put your hand behind your back,” Ferrin stated.
“You really want to do that? Do you see what I’m wearing? Do you see?” Ore said.
At the time of the incident the professor was wearing a black dress. The police officer “slammed” her onto the car and she was then wrestled to the ground where her dress rose exposing her body.
Ferrin and Ore suffered minor injuries and she was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, criminal damage and obstructing a thoroughfare.
The video shows Ore also kicking Ferrin while he was arresting her.
Ore plans to fight the charges and her attorney, Alane Roby, explained that she responded in self-defense.
“She was exposed, told officer she was exposed,” Roby stated of Ore to KTVK. “Her dress was up; the officer was reaching toward her anatomy. She felt uncomfortable with hands going there.”
The university released a statement to KTVK explaining that “ASU authorities have reviewed the circumstances surrounding the arrest and have found no evidence of inappropriate actions by the ASUPD officers involved. Should such evidence be discovered, an additional, thorough inquiry will be conducted and appropriate actions taken.
“Because the underlying criminal charges are pending, there is not much more we can say at this time. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has reviewed all available evidence, including the police report, witness statements, and audio and video recordings of the incident, and decided to press criminal charges of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, refusing to provide identification when requested to do so by an officer, and obstructing a highway or public thoroughfare.”
Half right. You cannot be “arrested” for failing to provide an ID. You can be “detained” until your identity can be verified.
If that is true, then she is going to be a wealthy woman.....................
Please tell me you forgot your sarcasm tag.
I did forget, thanks!
She was being civil.
In this case I’ll side with her.................
Your papers.....are not in order....
[ So is there a way citizens jaywalk that is different from illegals? Do share this research of yours. ]
If the cop had stopped a jay walking illegal and asked for ID I am sure the cop would have been fired before the end of the day...
Illegals seem to be a protected class these days while American citizens are seen as an obstacle to power by the ruling class, while illegals are seen as a gateway to power.
Let’s assume the cop was going to write her a ticket for jaywalking. First rule, never argue with the cop at the scene. Take the ticket and fight it in court. There’s a good chance the cop won’t show and it will be dismissed, or that the judge will accept your explanation and drop it. OTOH, if you piss the cop off, he will remember you, make sure to show up, and possibly lie about what happened. But if you don’t show your ID, the cop can’t just issue you a citation, because you could be giving him a fake name. So he either has to back down completely, or detain you.
I think you meant to type something other than what you typed.
Did you watch the video or did you just rely on the story in order to come to the conclusion that she was civil? It is clear from the video that she refused to comply with the officer’s request and had an attitude from the very beginning. It is also possible that she was inebriated since the ASU bar scene is just around the corner from there.
Do cops and wanna be cops have attitudes. Yep. Do professors of "cultural studies"... yep
She's also an idiot. Fighting with a cop because you don't want to produce an ID is just plain stupid. You may win in an appellant court somewhere.... but you're probably gonna end up with your dress over your head at some point :)
Ursela’s a go or no-go, but her lawyer’s pretty hot so I say “Innocent”!
LOL! Yep, that's a tough one.....but if it turns out she is a lesbian, that cop will be in a lot of trouble.
Jack-Booted Thug Alert !!!
Don’t require the cop hating idiots to consider the facts. They are irrelevant if it supports their opinions.
Rewrite? Maybe I just don't understand what you typed.
FMCDH(BITS)
I’m completely with Officer Fife on this one. The uppity kill-whitey “professor” got what she deserved for trying to act as if she could call the shots here. Of course, Dr. Tawana will shake the tree until payday falls down....
Papieren, schwein!
Campus Cops are AZPOST-qualified. Doesn’t mean there aren’t bad apples in the bunch, but they’re trained to be professionals.
AZ State professors are some the most arrogant people alive. It has been a daily occurence for faculty to call the ASUPD for access to their class-rooms because the faculty couldn’t be bothered to carry their keys with them. And they didn’t call the station, they called 9-1-1.
This is not going to go well for the officer.
The phrase, ‘You are disrespecting me’, is racial code for, ‘You racist honky, we gonna get you’.
Before this is over, look for every race pimp worth his/her salt to make a trip to Az...
On the plus side, no dogs were injured in the making of this arrest...
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