both LasVegasDave and Flutters.
Posted on 04/14/2012 5:58:09 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Ohio State University Police detained and drew their weapons on student-activist Mike Newbern for demonstrating his support for gun rights by wearing an empty holster to a candlelight vigil for Trayvon Martin on Wednesday.
Newbern, the president of Buckeyes for Concealed Carry, was taken forcibly into police custody just after 8:30 p.m., while he was standing at the front of the crowd wearing an empty holster, which was clearly visible on his belt, and with his hands crossed in front of his chest.
A police report released on Thursday indicates two officers drew their firearms before approaching Newbern and removing him from the vigil. They searched and questioned Newbern and confiscated his personal belongings, including his empty holster and camera case, before placing him handcuffed in the back of a cruiser for 30 minutes.
(Excerpt) Read more at osu.campusreform.org ...
LOL He should have put his cell phone in it , and really nailed them.
A clearly visible empty holster.....and the rent-a-cops pulled their weapons on him!!!!!!?????
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Purely a slam dunk!
Even Jackie Chiles would win in a walk.
Wasn’t it in OH where the police gave about 12 warnings to a bunch of students befoe pepper spraying them?
I am sure glad our police and so called leaders have ALL the priorities in order.
Battery & Kidnapping —they owe him money.
Actually it would be assault and battery for
touching him. Kidnapping for placing him in
handcuffs and preventing him from moving
freely and I’d suspect a few other charges
might be justified.....and aside from the civil
issue of owing him money these officers committed
felonies....they need to be arrested, charged and
tried, hopefully followed by time behind bars.
Paging Mr. Bivens, paging Mr. Bivens.
“I hope they end up paying him large sums of money.”
OSU has some deep pockets, aka, endowment. Litigation should ensure that a significant amount of said endowment is transferred to the victim.
“The university gets to define what constitutes ‘disorderly conduct’ and they can and will charge him with it, and punish him within the university (not criminal) code.”
That’s fine and well, they can punish him academically or administratively, up to and until such time as they use the OSU police to enforce a code of conduct, which is not Ohio law. Once they use OSU police, the courts become involved... The courts care not for OSUs code of conduct, only the law.
They will pay handsomely for their overreach.
Thanks Las Vegas Dave this is absolutely outrageous !
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