Posted on 01/27/2005 9:23:03 AM PST by Glacier Honey
DENVER - A Denver police sergeant is under investigation for reportedly telling a young woman he'd arrest her if she didn't remove a bumper sticker that had a profanity directed at President Bush.
Shasta Bates, 26, says Denver Police Sgt. Michael Karasek approached her in a Denver shopping mall Monday and said that a bumper sticker on her truck, which includes the F-word and the surname of our president, had to be removed. While the message may be offensive to some, it's not illegal.
"He said that I needed to remove my stickers before I left, and that if I didn't and I showed up here again, and he saw me, he was going to arrest me," said Bates.
"He said my First Amendment (right) wasn't covered under profanity displayed on my truck," said Bates.
But Denver's city attorney has said he's never heard of the law that the sergeant was reportedly enforcing. So far, the Denver Police Department is only confirming that an investigation is underway.
A deciple of Patsy Schroeder no doubt>
Well the expo is once a year to meet outfitters, arrange hunting and fishing trips, see the lates hunting and fishing gear and such. Cool show, but I ain't going.
I would throw her in jail for language. I would throw her in for hating-America.
Were the cops that died at the world trade center on September 11th, 2001 those who've been caught in their lies or those who have yet to be caught? How about all the other cops across our nation who had made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the public? Are they officers who've been caught in their lies or those who yet to be caught? The next time you need help from a police officer why don't you instead call the woman in the car that has the F*** Bush bumper sticker.
If you say her name five times fast, its a vulgar word... MissShastaBates MissShastaBates MissShastaBates MissShastaBates MissShastaBates
So if I go up to a demonrat mayor and say "F**k you you commie rat bastard!" They can't arrest me? Yeah right.
Send me $10,000 for up front bail money, then I'll try that experiment.
Sheila Jackson Lee was voted the most stupid politician in an anonymous poll a few years ago.
I believe Patrick Kennedy ws the male counterpart.
You are right - Drive around Denver / Boulder and you see more Kerry signs - Everywhere else is Bush Country
Proud to be a redstater
My apologies for my ignorance, Please forgive.
Why are you moving back to Minnesota? Too bad, Texas needs guys like you.
Why is it that a minimum standard of public decency is such a hard concept to grasp.
On one hand family oriented people, religious conservatives make this timid request that a half dozen words, nudity and sex acts are not allowed were children will see them. On the other hand the liberals have an 8 page single spaced list of words or ideas that they forbid.
Where did she say that?
So somebody doesn't like Bush, that means they "hate" America?
Nice logic.
Family reasons. We want to raise our daughter around the rest of her relatives. Down here, it's just us. We tried talking them in to retiring down here. No dice...
How many kids are gonna get 'soap..........poisoning' for innocently reading the word aloud when they see it in a parking lot? My only experience with the Principal in 1st grade was reading it off the restroom wall outloud. I had no idea what it meant.
"There's two types of cops in the world --Those who've been caught in their lies and those who have yet to be caught."
What you said applies to every person, not just cops. Cops are people also, and are subject to the same failings and weaknesses as private citizens. This a fact NO ONE can deny.
In the course of performing my duty on any given night, I probably get lied to 100 or more by private citizens who have no idea how they came to be in possession of the marijuana I caught them smoking in their car, because heaven knows it is not their's, they are only holding it for a friend.
I can't believe the Police Department is "investigating" this. This is a "go to bed without your dessert" kind of issue. But the PC brigade in Denver has been on a jihad against the Police Department and our weak-kneed wine and cheese liberal mayor lets them roll him on every issue.
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