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Posted on 11/14/2011 3:44:15 AM PST by lowbridge
Meet New York’s newest hero.
Kevin Hiltunen, a former NYPD officer, yesterday grabbed an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator by the collar and dragged him out of a Queens school where he’d been heckling US Rep. Bob Turner at the congressman’s swearing-in ceremony.
“I guess you could say I sorted him out,” said Hiltunen, 48, his jacket and tie barely mussed after dragging the scruffy protester out on his rear end.
“All I was doing was trying to stop this historic occasion from being disrupt-ed. There is a time and place to exercise your First Amendment rights,’’ said Hiltunen, of Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, who was identified by people at the ceremony as an ex-Marine.
“This was not the time or the venue,” Hiltunen added.
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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA......if onl1y MORE MEN would do that
taking out the trash
Marines are there when you need them.
Unless he dishonors himself, there is no such thing as an ex-Marine, as proved from case at hand.
These low life commy slugs can best be dealt with by we the people, the law sure won't do it, constitutional rights are for all Americans not just the commy libtards.
I cannot stop grinning!
Good Job Mr. Hiltunen!
Where did he get the authority to do that? I have no sympathy for the dragee but it sure looks like assault to me.
You must be a Lawyer.
First thing I thought was a lawsuit, I am sure the OWS dirtbag is seeing dollar signs.
Citizen arrest? Common decency?
Of course, it will not be a shock if charges are placed. We are all upside down. The children are ruling us.
Just logged in to say the same thing. I couldn’t tell from the article, but I was going to ask if anyone knew if the retired officer was performing a citizenz’ arrest (I thought it required 2 people), was part of private security (doesn’t sound like it), or someone who assaulted someone else because he didn’t like the fact that he spoke during the ceremony.
If the latter is the case, then I guess I wasn’t informed of when the right to assault someone was given when you don’t like what they’re saying or doing. Was this event private, or public? (I’d think public, since it was at a school). It’s a shame that our country celebrates a breakdown of the rule of law, with cheerleaders on both sides of the isle. Despite the gung-ho “Bring on the civil war” mentality, the situation is going to turn really nasty. The bad part about a society without a rule of law is that there is always someone, or a “group of someones” that can exert force or death over you. Always. And the U.S. doesn’t need to turn into Bosnia.
Great photo. Dirtbag got his beeber stuned!
LLS
“Of course, it will not be a shock if charges are placed.”
As well they should be. That’s why we live in a Republic with things like laws.
“We are all upside down.”
Yep, and for more than just the reasons you appear to be thinking of. The problem with ‘might makes right” is that eventually there is always someone with more “might.”
I love the New York Post. I hope that people in New York support it. It’s amazing to have such a newspaper in a place like New York of all places!
That’s exactly what I’m tallking about. Is this just another self appointed thug trying to prove his manhood. If he’s an ex NYC cop it increases the odds that he’s just another thug that needs to learn about the rule of law.
“group of someones” that can exert force”
Self-governance requires reasonable self-policing. Enforcing a reasonable community standard is indeed a local responsibility. The situation and the event at hand demanded some basic behavior. A man took out the trash. It didn’t rise to the level of needing to call the authorities.
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