Posted on 03/27/2014 5:22:39 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
So, its a warm day, and youre standing in a parking lot, drinking a refreshing can of iced tea.
Suddenly, a random dude walks up and demands your beverage. You show him that it is in fact iced tea and that you arent publicly intoxicated. He tells you to give him the can and you say no, figuring this stranger can get his own iced tea.
This is exactly what happened to rapper Christopher Xstrav Beatty, who was handcuffed and arrested by Officer Rick Libero of the Cumberland County Alcoholic Beverage Control Law Enforcement for drinking a can of Arizona iced tea in the parking lot of a liquor store in Fayetteville, North Carolina last April. Luckily for Beatty, a friend was right there, capturing the arrested on his camera. Its also important to note that Officer Libero did NOT immediately identify himself as a police officer.
One would think that with the entire debacle on video that Beattys plight would have ended shortly after this incident. One would be incorrect. Beatty was charged with trespassing and resisting arrest, and is being offered a deal by prosecutors. (Is it an election year? This wouldnt be the first prosecutor to crack down for a ridiculous reason in order to win fame and garner votes.)
Lets be sure we are 100% clear on this.
THEY WANT A MAN WHO IS GUILTY OF DRINKING ICED TEA AND NOT GOING AWAY AT THE ORDER OF AN (AT THE TIME) UNIDENTIFIED MAN TO TAKE A PLEA BARGAIN.
According to a court document, the deal would punish Beatty with probation and community service on misdemeanor allegations that he was trespassing and resisted a public officer.
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You just described Obamacare.
We know that, but there is a large segment on this forum that worship said armed thugs and everything they do.
This is the same prosecutor who has held Joshua Eisenhauer in prison for over two years without a trial and with no treatment for his severe PTSD after a PTSD flashback where police shot him 4 times while in his home alone after smashing down his door in the middle of the night while he was asleep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvr8SBu0dLg
The same police officer who shot Staff Sgt. Eisenhauer shot and killed another Staff Sgt. in the Warrior Transition Unit at Ft Bragg shortly after shooting Joshua.
Not at the point where the under cover cop decides to start exercising his power as a cop. At that point he must identify himself as a cop. Otherwise any old jackass could come up to you and threaten you.
Law enforcement arrogance again.
I’m surprised the “cop” didn’t shoot him.
Unfortunately, it's not an accident
Just wow. Another peasant made to “assume the position” at the feet of the Owners’ gunthugs...
Once he approaches you and begins to make demands, he’d better identify himself. The whole point of the ‘resisting’ charge is that a person is resisting authority. If they don’t know they’re dealing with an authority figure, how can their behavior be considered wrong?
If I’m outside smoking a cigarette and a random person comes up to me and accuses me of smoking weed in public, then demands to examine the cigarette, I’d tell them to go to hell. If a *cop* does the same thing, I’d allow him to examine the cigarette.
*a case of drinking peacefully while black.
It was an honest on his part mistake. It won’t happen again.
The law is in their mouth. They needed an extra charge against the peasant, so they looked it up in The Big Book.
Some peasant in Michigan got charged the same way for using free WiFi while sitting in his car on a lunch break.
The gunthug went back to the station and went over the lawbooks with the local persecutor till they found a charge to hang on the guy.
This is the reason the Owners keep passing more and more laws every day.
Read The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp:
Some gunthug who pulled this crap on me, I'd get to know REAL well - surreptitiously, of course...
There would be consequences...
There is more to this story but I’m not sure any of the background (drinking in public, purple drank, loitering and attitude) justifies the action. After the facts became clear, the charges should have been dropped and the local policy of allowing plain-clothes to moonlight like this should be reviewed. The security agent could have dealt with the situation better.
This sounds like one of them there bags of absolute, 100%, bull-$hit. Officer Stop-Resisting didn’t have his costume on at the time and wasn’t expecting someone to not obey. Is the property owner pressing the trespassing charge?
America is a Soviet client state.
An undercover officer has to identify himself before he starts issuing orders. In this situation, he needs to present his ID.
Many cops are thugs...not all...but many.
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