Posted on 06/10/2020 10:00:22 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Here’s the YouTube video of the initial encounter — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVT-FrWQD5g
It’s relatively polite on both sides (as one of the suspects records it), with the suspects claiming they’re innocent, and just happened to have paint on themselves because they are artists (in other words, it’s just a coincidence that they match the description of the two vandals with strollers :-).
All we see of the confrontation is the start when one of the women grabs a stroller, and says “I’m walking away.” The policeman says, “No, ma’am. You can’t do that.”
Save the video while you can because this may disappear too.
Thanks for posting the video.
>> “That cop taught those two females a lesson. And the lesson was that if you scream and fuss, you will be let go. But no worries. The Cayce spokeswoman says that the incident is under investigation (funny lady).”<<
I think there’s a good chance they’ll get away with it, but maybe not. “De-escalating” the situation all too often amounts to letting the criminals get away with it.
Having two children in strollers to be dealt with made the situation awkward, though. For a minor offense, the police probably didn’t want to be filmed separating two mothers — however guilty they were — from their small children. Even without having seen their ID, if they live in the Cayce area, they will almost certainly be identified from the video.
Charges can be brought against them later — IF the will and courage to do so is there.
Why not snap their picture and let them go? They are probably on cam the officers were wearing (if they were turned on). They can be charged at a later date but they should be charged.
Thanks for that.
Looks like a pleasant area, so.....let’s mess it all up with spray paint!
Morons
Looks like it ended up not going too smooth for the criminal justice graduate as i thought from your vid per post 21..
lol
Not even Edgar Cayce (famed psychic of 1950’s) could have predicted how this city would be in year 2020.
The incident was recorded on police body cameras and dash cameras. The article does not say whether or not the women were identified but their images were recorded. Anything they said or did during the confrontation can be used in court. Based on direction from their leadership, detectives could work to build a case to present to the local prosecutor for review. The prosecutor will decide whether or not to proceed.
If the case is pursued, the next contact will be at a time and place of the police’s choosing. That contact could be anything from a request to come in for an interview to a summons to court to a SWAT-backed arrest. All of those actions are legal proceedings and will cost the accused money.
The ladies may be permitted to discover how expensive their little adventure in graffiti could be. Or not. Depends on the prosecutor’s office and whether or not they feel prosecuting the case is “in the interest of justice.” These days who can tell?
And yes, it’s pathetic we have reached this point.
They allowed the women to leave giving them exactly what they wanted. The PD gets a 0 on this test.
Thanks for taking time to post the link.
The report of the encounter read pretty much as one would expect. Do a crime and then act outraged when called to account for it.
In separate but related incidents, it is reported that two statues of Christopher Columbus were destroyed yesterday. Symbols of racism and genocide, etc, etc.
From a population density standpoint, the continent in 1492 was, in most places, a near vacuum. Whether the disunited and scattered Native Americans liked it or not, someone, arriving from the east or from the west, was going to colonize it. It seems the statues were destroyed because, 500 years ago, the Chinese would have given them a much better deal. Not.
But, but.........
titties.
Superb. Thank you very much. Most useful.
WestMetroNews update for June 11: Women suspected of vandalizing Cayce Riverwalk are arrested.
So far things seem to be going well, and I congratulate those Lexington County news sources for keeping us informed on the matter. I also congratulate the police and local authorities on deciding to arrest the perpetrators.
To add to the already ample evidence against the "suspects", someone let the police know about a video that one of them had posted to the net, showing them at the bridge in the act of defacing it. :-) The Lexington Ledger then put it on YouTube.
Please see my previous post for an update on this thread’s vandalism story. Earlier many of us were somewhat skeptical about the vandals ever being arrested — they have been. (So I’ve tried to address these posts to all the persons who participated in the thread.)
Not only did they vandalize the bridge, but they falsely accused the police of using excessive force, which the videos showed didn’t happen. Looks like they may not get away with it.
I hope they face justice, still skeptical.
Well, justice may be too much to hope for, but the authorities are not fiddling around with this vandalism and false-charge-of-excessive-force case. They have put the two women in jail:
"Both women were brought into the headquarters of the Cayce Department of Public Safety, photographed, and processed. The two women were booked into the Lexington County Detention Center late Thursday afternoon. They will be there until a bond hearing is held." [The Lexington Ledger]
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