Why can't they just ride around and look good, instead of creating trouble for people?
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Where is this?
"She could have been taken somewhere, but she turned it down," Mendenhall said. "If she were a juvenile we would have made arrangements to get her home. But if it's an adult we can't force them against their will."
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Mendenhall said the woman initially waited in the back seat of a squad car while police called a ride for her. The ride didn't show, and the woman decided to walk to a pay phone, Mendenhall said.
Why can't they just ride around and look good, instead of creating trouble for people?
Stupid Ba$tards..........my son had his truck burn up on a freeway on his way home from up north.....the police officers took him to the local town, and dumped him off there....his shoes, coat, wallet and cell phone were destroyed in the fire. It was 40 degrees out, he had no shoes, it was raining, he had no coat, and they would not allow him into the police station. It took me over an hour to get to him, and some nice people in a restaurant let him stay in there, use their phone to call me, and gave him some coffee to warm up....i do not give a crap about "correct" procedure.....to protect and to serve overrides the so called "correct" procedure....so does common sense.
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If the police can prove (via a signed waiver or dash-cam records) that the woman was offered conveyance and refused to avail herself of it, they are in the clear on this.
This is true. The police are not at fault.
Bad things can happen when you ride around with a drug dealer.
If that is true, and the woman was offered a ride home by the police, but refused. She has no right to blame the cops.
But, if no such offer was made, or if she requested a ride but was refused, the cops have a lot of splainin' to do.
Too busy towing cars to arrest the criminals.
Let's see, he was charged with a myriad of crimes, at least two of which once carried the death penalty and is a suspect in a fast-food robbery.
Well, it is California, but still...
"The driver of the car,.... arrested on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia, and the car was impounded."
A car was impounded for possession of drug paraphernalia? No drugs just paraphernalia? The war on drugs has gone far too far.
WTF language is that?
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Police Capt. Jeff Mendenhall said that despite the obvious safety concerns, police followed proper procedures in letting the woman walk through the city alone in the middle of the night.
"She could have been taken somewhere, but she turned it down," Mendenhall said. "If she were a juvenile we would have made arrangements to get her home. But if it's an adult we can't force them against their will."
At first I felt very sorry for this woman but if she refused a ride, then I don't know what else could have been done. Not smart to walk alone late at night, especially for a woman.
Libertarian ping. To be added or removed from my ping list, freepmail me or post a message here. Well, that relieves the police of anything to be blamed for. SHE MADE THE DECISION. They could not stop her, OR THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN BLAMED FOR ILLEGALLY STOPPING HER FROM LEAVING!!!
This article has a little more information.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3661250
UPLAND
[snip]After Magba-Kamara was arrested, the woman identified him as her assailant, and evidence that linked him to the crime was in his car, Mendenhall said. Police also recovered the gun, which they said turned out to be an air pistol.
The woman was treated and released at a local hospital. She suffered bruises on her arms.
Mendenhall said police don't like to leave people stranded alone on streets.
Officers will often take them to 24-hour restaurants or even allow them to wait in the police station lobby for their rides.
This woman didn't want that, he said.
"We certainly didn't leave her stranded," he said. "There were better options for her to take."
Curtis Cope, an expert in police procedure, said Friday it appears Upland police acted within the law in allowing the woman to walk home alone.
"It sounds like an offer for assistance was made, and that would be consistent with good police practice," Cope said.
In some cases, officers can drive a person home, but that depends on how busy the officer is and how far the person needs to travel to get to his destination, said Cope, who spent 29 years as a policeman and now works as an instructor on proper tactics.
Normally, police will help the person call a cab or arrange transportation. If the person chooses to walk, police must let them, he said.
According to court records, Magba-Kamara has a pending case against him alleging he committed a robbery at a fast-food restaurant on Holt Boulevard in Montclair.
He was out of jail on that case on his own recognizance at the time of the incident.
Good thing they found the pot though. That's what's important.