Posted on 07/21/2005 4:31:34 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
MILFORD — The daughter of a black civil rights activist was held in lieu of $45,000 bond Wednesday after she allegedly attacked two white police officers on a transit bus while denouncing them with racial slurs. The commotion began Tuesday night when Holly Tucker, daughter of Barbara Fair, an organizer for People Against Injustice, apparently failed to pay her bus fare and then threatened the driver when told to get off the bus.
Two officers called in to defuse the situation found an angry Tucker on the bus in the parking lot of the Westfield Shoppingtown Connecticut Post mall, police said. Rather than responding to repeated requests to leave, Tucker, 22, of West Haven, began attacking the officers, said Milford Police spokesman Officer Vaughan Dumas in a statement. Tucker's 2-year-old daughter was with her at the time.
"Police then attempted to arrest Tucker when she became combative, kicking an officer in the leg and scratching an officer's arm during the struggle to resist arrest," Dumas said.
Before getting off the bus, Tucker scolded the two officers and the bus driver, all of whom were white, with racial epithets. No one suffered serious injuries during the dispute.
Tucker faces three counts of intimidation based on bigotry and bias, three counts of second-degree threatening, two counts of assault on a police officer, two counts of interfering with police and a count of breach of peace.
At Tucker's arraignment in Superior Court, Judge Kenneth Shluger ordered her held in lieu of $45,000 bond. She was ordered to return to court on Aug. 8.
Tucker's mother, Barbara Fair, of the New Haven-based People Against Injustice, was in a meeting about reforming the criminal justice system when she learned of her daughter's arrest.
People Against Injustice has advocated for more civil rights for convicted felons, eliminating the tax on collect calls made from prisons and reducing overcrowding in the state's corrections system.
Outside the courtroom, Fair said she is confident her daughter will be exonerated.
"We have plenty of witnesses. We have people who will exonerate her," she said. Tucker's sister, Kim Tucker, 17, said that police were too eager to make an arrest. "They shoved her to the ground and put her feet against her back," said Kim Tucker, who watched the altercation.
In Connecticut, fewer racial crimes are committed against whites than minority groups, said Randi Pincus, assistant director of the regional office of the Anti-Defamation League.
"We do see this type of situation less frequently. It does happen and there is precedent for it," she said.
Greg Shulas, who covers Milford, can be reached at 878-2130.
The irony meter is on 10 here
Translation: Tucker's mother, Barbara Fair, of the New Haven-based People Against Injustice, was vigorously smoking rock with longtime associates when she learned of her daughter's arrest.
The socialist state of CT will see to it that this elite female gets out of it.
The elite is always above the law.
When will we understand that all white MF's are racist? (sarc)
The hand is always out for a free ride in everything.
I hope there was a camera on that bus.
What a great parental example. Where are social services when you need them?
"Ativist"?? Is that an atavistic activist??
Tucker faces three counts of intimidation based on bigotry and bias, three counts of second-degree threatening, two counts of assault on a police officer, two counts of interfering with police and a count of breach of peace.
Uhhhh???? Where's the "Hate Crime" charge?
More coffee, please!
Two officers called in to defuse the situation found an angry Tucker..
Hmmm... let's see. "Threatened the driver" and "defuse the situation". Defuse? Defuse! WTH? She threatened the driver. C'mon officers, arrest her, that's your job.
...found an angry Tucker
Yeah, she's a [F]Tucker, no doubt about that.
Not exactly Rosa Parks.
*****"We have plenty of witnesses. We have people who will exonerate her," *****
Translation. She will lie and the witnesses will swear to it. Some of whom werent even in the neighborhood at the time.
"Tucker faces three counts of intimidation based on bigotry and bias, three counts of second-degree threatening, two counts of assault on a police officer, two counts of interfering with police and a count of breach of peace"
OOO...hate cwimes.
Funny how they end up being applied.
"Bigotry is not just wrong...its against the law." Puleeze.
Throw the book at her for the assault and the rest but drop the bigotry and bias nonsense.
I don't care who you are, that ain't right.[Yeah I know, it was intended to punish white people for assumed racism.]
Read your own cited passage.
Scolded? So, if some white bigot yells the n-word at a black person, the white bigot is just scolding the black guy? I don't think so.
Either the woman was irrational to start with or the report is missing something, but I think we'd be well advised to withold judgement for a little while. This reads like the police version of the facts.
Either way, her reaction was way outta line and hopefully some of the charges will stick.
Just ignore her. She is black. She can do what she wants.
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