Transit Police and some Metro officials say Saoutis was protecting the peace by removing a woman who had overstepped the boundaries of civil behavior because she was loudly cursing into her phone.
Aaron acknowledged that she was loud on the phone but said she wasn't cursing and lobbed a profanity only after Saoutis grabbed her.
I'm going with the cop on this one.
Learn to read. It makes life easier.
Not good enough. She says she wasn't cursing; if the lady was so loud, where are the cops witnesses? Remember that in America a person is innocent until proven guilty.
I did a quick search on USSC rulings on disturbing the peace; and from what I can tell, an arrest for talking loudly on a cell phone would be tossed so fast that no decent prosecutor would THINK about taking the case....and it should be tossed. They threw out convictions for commentary that nearly resulted in riots. The cop certainly had the right to ask her to be quiet; which he should have done nicely (I doubt that was the case). And she had the right to refuse.
There are rude people in the world; happily they live in a country where they are free to be rude.