Looks pretty clean-cut to me!
Posted on 06/27/2007 1:39:36 PM PDT by TheTruthAintPretty
Video from the popular internet web site YouTube that was posted by one of six people arrested for skateboarding in downtown hot springs is causing quiet a stir.
Hot Springs police say the skateboarders were in violation of a city ordinance. Now three minors and three adults are facing charges, and the officer who arrested them is on administrative leave.
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(Matt McCormack, Arrested for Skateboarding) "He grabbed a kid from around his back by the neck and took him to the ground and choked him."
(Skylar Nalls, Arrested for Skateboarding) "The kid didn't know that he was coming after him. He kind of just grabbed him from behind and took him to the ground and started choking him."
(Excerpt) Read more at katv.com ...
Help! I can’t get either link to play. And, I just installed windows media. :-(
It is and always was a crime in many places. Just because some punk plasters a sticker somewhere that doesn't change the law.
And drunks! Anyone driving drunk needs to be beaten within an inch of their lives!
(If you've ever lost someone to some drunken fool, you would know where I'm coming from)
Ooops...that won't work because cops don't skateboard, but they DO drink and drive!
If you catch a cop skateboarding, beat their ass and cut their stringy hair
I'm not greedy! I'll save that privilege for you, as I have nothing against skateboarders personally (other than a bit of jealousy about their youth and ability)!
I assume you've had a traumatic experience involving a stringy-haired skateboarder? And what about the drunken morons? They kill a lot more people than skateboarders!
If you catch a drunken moron on a skateboard, you know what to do. Cut that stringy hair
Looks pretty clean-cut to me!
Looks pretty clean-cut to me!
Obviously, someone got to him and CUT THAT STRINGY HAIR.
I live in Hot Springs and have been following this case. It’s wonderful publicity for us, especially after the incident with people stuck on the ride at Magic Springs became the subject of Letterman’s Top 10 a few weeks ago!
First, there are 3 skateparks in Hot Springs, and all the kids know about them.
Second, these kids chose to come in a group of 10 for a national skate day, part of whose stated purpose is to reclaim skateboarding as a life of rebellion.
Third, 70 merchants who are right there on Central Avenue signed a petition in favor of the cop. Several were eyewitnesses and all agree that what is being put out there, on YouTube, for example, doesn’t accurately reflect the whole situation.
This was a deliberate, staged, act of defiance that could have ended more peaceably at any time if the kids had complied at any stage of warning.
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