Posted on 05/15/2020 4:46:03 PM PDT by simpson96
...on April 16th, Jill Nelson, a 67-year-old writer, left her apartment on Riverside Drive to run a few essential errands.(snip)... she passed a boarded-up storefront, and wrote “Trump = Plague” in pink chalk. Seconds later, she was in handcuffs, she told us.
“Before I could step back and see my handiwork, two police SUVs roared up on either side of me, and blocked me in,” Nelson told the Rag. “Four officers jumped out: ‘What are you doing? Why are you doing that? Do you own this building? Do you have a weapon?’
“They roughly cuffed me, took my purse, and shoved me into the back of an SUV. I was taken to the 33rd Precinct and put in a cell at about 1 p.m. I was never read my rights.(snip)
Nelson has been charged with graffiti, a misdemeanor, and was held at the 33rd Precinct for more than five hours.(snip)...they weren’t going to let me out because I didn’t have a picture ID,”(snip)
During a phone call that Nelson claims was cut short by an NYPD officer, she was unable to communicate her whereabouts to her husband, Flores A. Forbes,(snip)
Eventually, Forbes arrived, having given up on the squad car and determined his wife was almost certainly at the 33rd Precinct.
“They had a plastic evidence bag and I saw my license, from my cell,” Nelson said.(snip)
It wasn’t until 6:37 p.m. that Nelson was able to leave the precinct, and not without a stern reminder as to her impending day in court, she said.
“When I left, the desk sergeant, who was of African-American descent, said, you better show up, because if you don’t we’re going to come to your house and arrest you.”
On her way home, Nelson noticed that “Trump = Plague” had already been smudged away.
(Excerpt) Read more at westsiderag.com ...
Old hippie.
> ...vandalism was almost unknown prior to WWII.
Kilroy was there! He started it.
Jail time for chalk isn’t tyranny?
Or get murdered by a saracen in blue for being a woman not covered head to toe in garbage bags.
Oh, come on! She was held for 5 hours. "Do the crime, Do the time".
Exactly true !
She felt entitled because ..
Then went back to see her handiwork, and saw it was smudged almost to oblivion.
The article demonstrates that she was just grandstanding
and still feels entitled at least to the notoriety that she was inconvenienced.
Demonrat Stalinazis = Plague
What crime is there when it can be erased with some water?
You just don’t get it. You are imposing a cost on someone, no matter how small. Also, chalk comes off of concrete with a scrub brush and water. Not so for painted surfaces. Also, she was only in jail for 5 hours. How about she be the one who is required to restore the surface to its original state? That seems fair.
If she had written “Thanks a lot, China” she’d have been just as arrested.
She’s one of my favorite cuties (BooHoo Girl).
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