Posted on 10/17/2015 10:01:02 AM PDT by Altariel
Parents say police pass out citations each day despite limited parking
CUTLER BAY, Fla. - A mother was arrested Wednesday after she parked her car on the grass outside Dr. Edward L. Wingham Elementary School in Cutler Bay.
Rita Guzman, 25, was arrested on a charge of resisting an officer without violence after she refused to comply with a Miami-Dade police officer's orders, an arrest report said.
According to the report, Guzman was parked in an area that was marked "no parking or standing."
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Parents voice parking issue concerns after woman's arrest Guzman said she was scared to sleep at home Thursday night.
"I can't believe it's me in that video," Guzman said. "It just wasn't necessary."
She's wearing splints on both wrists for sprains and her arms are bruised after allegedly being yanked from her car by a Miami-Dade police officer outside the elementary school while waiting to pick up her daughter Wednesday afternoon.
"I was on the phone, distracted, and the officer asked me to move. I was fine with that, but I didn't know where. Then it escalated, and he was really aggressive with me," Guzman said.
She was handcuffed and spent the night in jail.
"I slept in a cell. I was treated like a criminal," Guzman said.
A Local 10 News viewer and parent, whose child attends the school, said police have been handing out citations to parents every day, although there is limited parking availability for parents.
The woman said road work is being done in the area, and construction vehicles have been allowed to park on the school's grass.
"There is not enough parking here," another parent, Alex Montes, said. "And they put a whole bunch of no parking signs that were not here last year. Now what they do is wait for the parents every morning and every afternoon to give us tickets."
"I wish they would come up with a solution to the problem. We don't know where to park," said parent Daissy Santiago.
For Guzman, the parking problem turned into her worst nightmare.
"I just want people around her to feel safe, and I'm at a point where I don't feel safe in my own community. I don't feel safe taking my daughter to school," Guzman said. "Now, I'm just scared, and I'm terrified."
According to police, Guzman asked the officer, "Why are you being nasty?" and refused to hand him her driver's license.
Cellphone video from another parent shows Guzman being pulled out of her car by the officer.
Raw Footage: Woman arrested outside Cutler Bay elementary school The report said Guzman began to "rotate her body away" from the officer as he attempted to handcuff her.
She was then taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Guzman's ex-husband, Dante Silverio, told Local 10 News that Guzman spent the night in jail and had to go to the hospital, because she was "bruised up."
Musta been a White woman or weeda heard about it all over the news.
You’re not serious, are you? Law enforcement has historically and traditionally in America been granted statutory exemption from many laws during the prosecution of their duties, in order to enable them to more successfully apprehend criminals. The same with firefighters and ambulances. Would you want to be bleeding out from a wound and have the ambulance you are in stopped and waiting for the light to change at the next intersection because some dumb idiot in the legislature believed everyone without exception should be at all times subject to the traffic codes in the interests of the false god of “equality”?
There is a large segment on this forum that believes officers should not be held accountable. They should be able to do and act as they please.
Spellcheck is your friend.
CC
LOLOLOL. The biggest mistake in my life is that I gave that kid a “Tommy Tell Time” watch for Christmas when he was 6. It was an analog watch with all the seconds listed around the dial, and you could tell the exact time by reading it a certain way. He used to sit on the rectory steps and inform me that I was exactly 5 minutes 35 seconds late in arriving! Worse than that, he woud inform his father. (He’s a nuclear researcher for Westinghouse now with a Phd in Material Science and 5 kids of his own. I should give one of them a watch like that!)
So later on, after showing him the way and checking on him, I gave him permission to start walking home on a prescribed route where I would pick him up. When he ratted me out to his father, the proverbial S hit the fan and I was informed in no uncertain terms by my husband that I was to be on time in the future, no matter what the traffic was like!
Spell Czech is knot yore friend!
Wow, my husband would not have known what hit him had he tried something like that on me! I can tell you would think long and hard before he questioned my judgement like that again!
Her BIGGEST MISTAKE, of course, is sending her kids to public school. But then again, some liberals cannot help themselves. Thankfully people on THIS SITE understand the irreparable damage public schools do to kids...damage that parents can neither control or counteract.
you’ll never get arrested picking your kid up ... if you home school
We call them “bootlickers” and faux conservatives. You’ll see them fawning over any and all Johnny Blues. In their secret fantasies, many of them dream of turning over their wives and girlfriends to be bred by the superior males. They’ll never admit to that, though.
My husband was pretty tolerent normally. However, I was thinking about how I was raised and the era when I could walk all over town safely and always walked, or biked, to and from school, piano lessons, dance lessons, etc. This was 30 years later, however, and in a very different community. In fact, in 2 communities since school was in an adjoining city, although not too far from home. He was right.
It was just that I had 4 kids and a busy schedule.
The reason there isn’t enough parking is because of the increasing trend of helicopter parents dropping off and picking up their precious packages from school.
Interesting thought... I happen to drive my grand daughter to school because the bus comes between 6:30 and 7:15 in the morning and I wait for her at the bus stop which is not visible from the house and it arrives between 3:40 and 4:15 PM. Also the bus packs them in three students to the seat. K - 12th grade.
Such is life in a rural county. So if a parent wants to ‘waste’ their precious gas making sure that their kids get to school safely and then back home again. I have no problems with that at all.
Iz to! truss mee.
CC
General advice to make everyone’s life easier.
1) If you are parked illegally and a cop tells you to move, move.
2) If you are chatting on a cell phone and a cop addresses you, make the other person on the phone wait while you see what the cop’s issue might be.
3) If a cop tells you to get out of the car, and there isn’t a traffic issue, get out of the car.
4) If a cop wants you in cuffs, don’t struggle with him. The best outcome for you will be a trip to jail.
5) Don’t argue law with the cop. Take the ticket, and argue with the judge.
6) Never consent to a search. But use only verbal responses.
“You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride”
Unfortunately that remains the case.
A child molester is a criminal (yet officers write letters asking for a more lenient sentence when the criminal is an officer.)
A mother picking up her child is not a criminal.
At least not in a free country.
Yep, some people have no clue what goes on school buses these days.
And why are they expecting the government to transport their children anyway?
If she’s a minority they’re drop the charges.
The drop off AM and pick up PM lines at the schools in this area are a horrible mess. Most kids don’t ride the bus but the buses still run starting at 0530 and for what seems like most of the rest of the day. They run in convoys.
Apparently discipline is so bad that only “special” cretins ride the bus.
There are special buses for early events, late events and each school thus the all day convoy of tax payer paid service for the “special” cretins.
I don’t have any friends,check it yerslf
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