Posted on 09/19/2004 4:45:43 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
TRENTON, N.J. - Police have dropped charges against a Hopewell woman who was arrested when she interrupted a campaign speech by first lady Laura Bush to ask why her son was killed in Iraq.
Sue Sapir-Niederer had refused to leave the Thursday rally at a Hamilton fire house and was eventually escorted from the site. Sapir-Niederer wore a T-shirt that bore the words "President Bush You Killed My Son" and a picture of her son, Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin.
While he defended police for doing the right thing, Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr. issued a statement Friday that said police would dismiss the trespass charge.
"It is our determination that the police officers had more than enough probable cause to arrest Ms. Sapir-Niederer and were justified in the their actions," said Bocchini. "Taking all factors into consideration, including the recent loss of her son while serving in the armed forces in Iraq, I believe that the continued prosecution of the this matter would serve no useful purpose."
Dvorin was killed in February while trying to disarm a bomb in Iraq. The 24-year-old had just returned to Iraq after spending two weeks with his family.
At the campaign rally, the first lady continued speaking after the arrest, touting her husband's record on the economy, health care and the war on terror.
On Friday, New Jersey Democrats criticized Assemblyman Bill Baroni, R-Mercer, for statements he made to The Times of Trenton that Sapir-Niederer ought to "find something better to do with her time."
Baroni said Friday that he felt sorry for what Sapir-Niederer had experienced.
"I feel profoundly sorry for Mrs. Niederer and her son is an American hero," said Baroni. "None of us can truly understand what she is going through, and she and her family are in our prayers."
This woman was a vicious, vile, nasty piece of work before her son was killed. His death doesn't change her character.
Mistake. This witch should spend the rest of the campaign in the hoosegow.
Watch this dumb b*tch closely...
Wrapping one's self in the blanket of a loved one's death, and in a very noble cause to boot, for partisan purposes, is below contempt...
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