Posted on 05/02/2009 3:57:28 AM PDT by Slump Tester
CLEVELAND (AP) — The sister of an Ohio soldier killed in Iraq was ticketed for speeding and missed a ceremony awarding him a posthumous Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
The ticket was issued by a state trooper to 25-yearold Rebecca Davis of Cuyahoga Heights along Interstate 77 on Thursday despite her request for a warning and to call and confirm her situation.
The ticket was withdrawn about three hours later when a State Highway Patrol lieutenant went to the funeral home and apologized. A relative of Davis, who is a police officer, had called to complain about the ticket.
She was ticketed heading to an award ceremony for 21-year-old Spc. Brad Davis of Garfield Heights, who was killed last week in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq. Burial was planned for Friday
Glad to hear that you are a law abiding citizen, above reproach. We are too. We have lived on the east coast but lived exclusively in Texas the last 45 years. We have traveled by car over almost the entire US during those years and have never been mistreated by police. Neither have our family or friends been mistreated. If it happens I’ll let you know.
I’d need to be that last lane that you mentioned. LOL!
The relative was a cop. “A relative of Davis, who is a police officer, had called to complain about the ticket.” Shame on this relative too!
She was speeding, pure and simple. When she wipes out someone else because of her careless behavior, we can talk again. The ceremony wasn’t life or death, no excuses. If she really had respect for her brother, she would have made sure she was prepared and allowed plenty of time to get there in time. Instead, she was not only disrespectfuly of him, but other people on the road.
Go back and read my post #87.
People who hate cops are never ever even halfway decent people. If someone tells me they hate cops I know to never let my kids around them because they are lowlifes.
Remember the gang banger lovers who hate cops cheer when they hear a police officer dies and cheer the shooter.
I feel you are wrong. If she was speeding, she was breaking the law, and the police officer had the authority to stop and ticket her. Regardless of the event; it wasn’t life or death.
you just love gang bangers.
What’s disgusting about people like you is when my best friends husband was killed in the line of duty you cheered his killer.
Instead of honoring a man who married a woman with 2 kids who he was raising as his own and expecting one together you said “YEA HE’S DEAD!” and cheered the gang leader who was a rapist and drug dealer.
ANother lover of gang bangers posts. What is it like to have not one shred of decency? God I pray you don’t have children since you are a hate filled obviously abusive person.
Cop Haters are all slimeballs.
If you were being held at gunpoint by a gang leader and a cop hater walked by he’d shoot the cop trying to save you and go high five the gang leader as he shot you.
Cop haters are america hating scum. They love the gang bangers.
You are a cop hater. Yes there are bad cops but to even use the jack booted thug term proves you hope every cop dies.
On 9/11 all cop haters reacted by stopping beating their kids to say “cops died, it wasn’t so bad after all” because to them every cop death is good.
You’re a troll n00b. Get lost.
Prepare for the zot, troll.
Your ignorance is exceeded only by your stupidity
Deranged, by a cop hater.
You are in serious need of professional help.
I love the smell of zot in the afternoon, smells like cubsfanconswoman, or whatever it was calling itself.
Mojave, that wasn’t your wife was it?
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