Mommy Dearest.
They don't wage war against me, and I'm a people.
Maybe you're just going about it wrong.
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.
If I were to rank the pleasantness of my customers by race and the ease of dealing with them it would go like this(best being first and last being worst).
1. Hispanics: Friendly and willing to pay the price quoted. Almost never get in the way of doing the job.
Blacks:Friendly, good conversation while working almost never rude, never interfere with the job, always pay the price quoted.
Whites: Usually nice but can be rude or dismissive. Usually pay the price quoted but can be known to ask for discounts. Sometimes stay out of the way but not always.
Asians; Generally very nice. Like to get a deal after being quoted price but not pushy. Usually supervise work but do not get in the way.
Indian(dots not feathers):Almost always try to talk down from quoted price and are aggressive but nice in doing so. Always question your work and usually ask for extra to be done. Will bargain w/ a smile on their face and are generally friendly customers.
Mid Eastern: Always want better deal than agreed price once the job is done. Sometimes friendly but usually only to get deal. Ready to accuse of being cheated and not afraid to do so to get a deal. Will refer me to family even after arguing price and accusing me of cheating them. Are not loyal to me as a company if my price is only slightly higher than a unknown company. Generally lie to me about the price I quoted over the phone vs. price charged. "The guy on the phone said $200 and you say $225, what is the deal my main man?"
"I am the guy you spoke with on the phone and you know I said $225."
I guess the reason I said all that is because I was thinking how blacks sometimes get a bad rap because of stupid storys like this. One person makes an ass of themselves and somehow blacks are tainted with it. Whites could pass this off as just some nut on the bus and it wouldn't touch them.
Cooler time....
Hate crime?
Before this is over the Bus Driver and the Police Officers will be on trial.
LOL! Actually, she's the 21st Century Rosa Parks.
The PAN PartY is the political arm of 3Pm — the Progressive-Populist Peoples’ movement. PAN is an acronym for Peoples’ Action Network and is meant to be a countervailing force to Political Action Committees (PACs) and the Democratic/Republican political machine which does the bidding of these big-money Special Interest Groups.
This org, PAI, is mostly concerned with "unfair" drug arrests.
Is is classified as a "hate crime"?
Typical.
"Don't you know who I am?"
It seems the daughter is an atavist.
Mommy Dearest.
They don't wage war against me, and I'm a people.
Maybe you're just going about it wrong.
at·a·vism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (t-vzm)
n.
1. The reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence, usually caused by the chance recombination of genes.
2. An individual or a part that exhibits atavism. Also called throwback.
3. The return of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence.
...now let me clean the coffee off the keyboard...
Let's see if the oldstream media makes this hate crime a lead story everynight for a month like they would do if the racial roles were reversed.
This be Selma all over agin!!!!
That's an atavistic activist
Let's see. Tucker breaks the law by trying to get a bus ride without paying the fare, attacks two police officers, utter racial slurs at everybody and then she turns around and blames whitey.
Typical leftist NAACP crap.
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