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Man Arrested for Public Consumption of Iced Tea Urged to Take a “Deal” from Prosecutors
D.C. Clothesline ^
| 03-27-2014
| Kimberly Paxton
Posted on 03/27/2014 5:22:39 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
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To: PaulCruz2016
Any wonder why so many people are scofflaws. Laws should be rare, clear and enforced rigorously.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:26:52 AM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
To: PaulCruz2016
Freakin amazing. Arresting a man for drinking Ice Tea in public. Throwing him to the ground and handcuffing him for doing nothing wrong.
I hope this man has a team of lawyers and takes them for everything including the Toilet paper in the restrooms.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:29:49 AM PDT
by
Yorlik803
( Church/Caboose in 2016)
To: PaulCruz2016
There are legit cases of arrested for being black; this looks like one of them.
To: PaulCruz2016
He should take the deal and consider himself lucky that the SWAT team didn’t show up and shoot him. /s
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:30:50 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: PaulCruz2016
He was not arrested, he was KIDNAPPED BY AN ARMED THUG, and the THUG belongs in Prison for LIFE.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:32:48 AM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: PaulCruz2016
No doubt there is a problem in Fayetteville with public intoxication, and no doubt they’re attempting to disguise it by mixing drinks in iced tea cans. But, there comes a point when the “solution” is worse than the problem. They have reached that point.
To: PaulCruz2016
Sounds like a good civil liberties suit. He should file and see if he can get 10k for it.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:35:13 AM PDT
by
fruser1
To: HereInTheHeartland
There are legit cases of arrested for being black I didn't realize there were legitimate reasons for being arrested for the color of your skin?
To: PaulCruz2016
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers and then you cash in on guilt
Ayn Rand.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:36:19 AM PDT
by
xrmusn
(6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".)
To: PaulCruz2016
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:37:49 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Yorlik803
The problem with the big money suit is, it isn't the officer's money! No sweat off his brow. He might be transferred (more likely promoted). While I am as outraged as you, you are basically saying, I hope the tax payers have to pay him a bunch of money.... It is a race: To disarm the People before they eventually wise up and and rise up against the ever more aggressive police state. Who will win will be determined by how much of our ability to defend ourselves is destroyed before we begin to react.
To: DariusBane
Poorly written and ill-conceived laws become tools of oppression.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:39:42 AM PDT
by
Usagi_yo
(Journalticion -- journalist + politician. Used to be called propagandist.)
To: PaulCruz2016
The one thing I dont get about this story is the trespassing charge. If itmwas public lot how could that be a charge? Is something missing here?
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:39:44 AM PDT
by
BRL
To: ArtDodger
Couldn't part of the settlement mean this badge wearing thug lose his job?
In a perfect world this cop would be arrest for assault under the badge of authority.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:41:58 AM PDT
by
Yorlik803
( Church/Caboose in 2016)
To: GeronL
This is ridiculoud I think you just invented a new word!
To: RegulatorCountry
The main point here is that the man was not in uniform and didn’t identify himself as a police officer. If a random dude walks up to you, accuses you of drinking, then demands to peek in your can, you’d probably tell him to go take a hike as well.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:44:18 AM PDT
by
Marie
(When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
To: Yorlik803
Part of the problem is, he wasn’t wearing a badge and didn’t identify himself as a police officer when he approached the individual and demanding his can of iced tea.
To: PaulCruz2016
*yikes!*..the consequences of buying (HFCS) iced tea in NC..
*yuck!* really never drank the (wrenched/sickly sweet) stuff.
..sounds like the prep (LEO) needs some remedial ed. in cop school or
a blanket party by other ELOs..or he was trying to impress "a working girl."
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:47:06 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: Yorlik803
This is definitely a case of EWB (Existing While Black).
Doesn’t it say somewhere in the Constitution something about the right to pursue happiness, like having a refreshing drink, for example? Didn’t the Supreme Court say something about the “right to be left alone”?
Why don’t Sharpton and Jackson go nuts on cases like this? I’d actually SUPPORT them if they did.
As far as I’m concerned, this is not just a crime against just the tea-drinker.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:47:11 AM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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