Posted on 05/11/2025 5:30:15 PM PDT by Red Badger
A 28-year-old former college cheerleader and self-described honor student plowed into a Maryland police officer and nearly hit pedestrians at a street fair in Laurel Saturday, all because she couldn’t be late to work.
Kai DeBerry-Bostick, a graduate of Bowie State University and a member of the Zeta Delta sorority, according to the New York Post, is now facing assault charges after brazenly ripping down police tape and driving into a closed festival zone Saturday morning, bodycam video released by police shows.
“I need to get out, I need to get out,” DeBerry-Bostick can be heard saying, before informing the officer on video, “I gotta go.”
The officer, who remained composed despite the tantrum, offered to call her a cab — an offer she dismissed. In the video, she defies orders and yells, “I got to go to work! What do you want me to do?”
The woman got into her car, pushed past the officer and onto a street filled with pedestrians. As her car rolled dangerously close — within feet — of a man pushing a stroller, the cop is seen screaming at her to stop.
Festival-goers scattered in panic. The officer sustained minor injuries while attempting to stop the vehicle, and DeBerry-Bostick was ultimately yanked out of the car and cuffed on the street, the video shows. She is now in custody and facing multiple charges, including assault resisting arrest and reckless endangerment, NBC Washington DC reported.
The Laurel Police Department confirmed that no civilians were injured, though a separate incident — a propane tank explosion at a booth — forced the cancellation of a planned parade later in the day.
DeBerry-Bostick’s background makes the story all the more surreal. She was an honor student, cheerleader, and seemingly honor student at Bowie State.
Bowie State HGCU (Historically Ghetto College and University)
One Way Street...................
Didn't they have had signs showing detours and ways around?
Or did they block off the only way in or out of a parking area?
Which would be kind of dangerous.
I don’t know the area...............
“Bowie State is a “historically black college”. Wonder what it takes to be an honor student there.”
My daughter has her own lab in a left coast university. Over the summer she and another researcher took in some interns from a historically black college. These kids couldn’t even perform simple tasks despite being repeatedly shown how to do them. They would leave early, waste hours in the cafeteria, were generally useless and then wanted recommendations. Awkward!
Officer notices a car weaving all over the road and pulls up beside the driver and rolls window down and yells “Pull Over”
Blond Yells back “Nope- it’s a Cardigan”
I am just thinking that if the police closed down the only way I had of getting out of my apartment's parking area I would probably be upset too. Not drive on through upset but not happy.
Anyway it sounds like they had blocked in her car, since he did not tell her how to get around but said "I'll just call you a cab." And will you be paying for it?
She apparently has work to do in prison.
The only thing I can think of is that is a one way street................
AL Sharpton will show up claiming some nonsense and the agitators will march in protest over her arrest.
I knew that at “Bowie State.”
Sounds like a “mayhem” commercial script
Is she a n—Marine band blares Stars & Stripes Forever
A 28-year-old former college cheerleader and self-described honor student
But still there should be some way to get out if it is a residential street. Blocking it off completely except for a real emergency is not acceptable.
The more I look at this the more it looks like very poor planning by the city.
Like I said, I don't agree with the driving on through but I don't think she was being that unreasonable. Bosses are not understanding about the "my driveway was blocked off because of a street fair and there was no way out" excuse.
Heck the boss was not very understanding about the "water main broke and the street is now a river" excuse.
>> She’s another daughter of Obeyme.
She looks like a privileged halfrican to me.
What kind of job was she late for, honor student that she was?
Why is this thing still up? What is the explanation around how it came to be? What bureaucrat issued the permit? What commission approved it? Who paid for it? Nobody cares. We just suddenly, with no explanation, have a morbidly obese gigantic black woman scowling at us, with her butt in our faces. This is our country today. Wonderful.
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