Posted on 02/03/2006 11:07:42 AM PST by Irontank
A woman accused of using racial epithets while waiting for food at a Connecticut Taco Bell drive-through window was arrested Wednesday.
Jennifer Farrelly, 19, of East Windsor, has been charged with ridicule on account of race, creed or color and second-degree breach of peace. Farrelly's boyfriend, Eric Satterlee, 22, of Ashford, was charged with breach of peace in the incident.
On Dec. 18, Farrelly and Satterlee became frustrated by the slow service at the Taco Bell restaurant on Brookside Place, according to an arrest warrant. Farrelly banged on the drive-through window and called the Taco Bell attendant, Jamelle Byrd, a racial epithet, according to the warrant. Satterlee allegedly cursed and banged on the window.
Farrelly denied using racial epithets when she was interviewed by police, saying Byrd caused the dispute by ridiculing her for parking her car far away from the drive-through window, the warrant states. Byrd's supervisor told police that Byrd should not have been working the drive-through because he had gotten into a similar incident with another customer, the warrant states.
Developing...
"Actions are criminal, not insults."
According to the article, the woman cursed and banged on the window. That's enough in many jurisdictions for a breach-of-peace arrest, regardless of the race/ethnicity of the recipient. As for the charge of "ridicule on account of race ...", however, that sounds like political correctness run amok.
Bye-bye Jamelle. Get you butt outta de Taco Bell. You fired. Two strikes an you out! Diffrent ball game.
Quick! Someone play the National Anthem. Everyone has to stand up and salute the flag.
"Anyone who goes to Taco Smell should be arrested!"
LOL! For ingesting combustible edibles!
(My daughter calls it -- Taco Hell!)
some speech is free, some is not nowadays. I have trouble keeping up with what part is free
Perhaps Byrd should have been fired the frist time, then this one wouldn't have happened. What ever happened to "the customer is always right?" I think I'd be going to Taco Bell's parent company over this.
Is it a crime to ridicule this post??? Dam this coffee is to hot and where the hell are all the roops - I hope we can still ridicule the stupid cause no one will email me if we can't.
shape of nose?
unibrow or two?
The 'spe' is free, the 'ech' you've gotta pay for.
"Sec. 53-37. Ridicule on account of race, creed or color. Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 8376.)"
I was expecting a Carlos Mencia routine.
I really want ot ridicule what you just said but I am not sure I am protected under the cover of the 1st what-evermendent.
I prefer to change my color to fit my mood - now I suppose I am a racist or am I a colorful person, person of color or colored person???
I need a nap
Isn't that improper flag etiquette?
"They took our JAWWBBSSS!!!!"
"ridicule on account of race, creed or color and second degree breach of peace"?
HUH?
Most rap music falls into this category...especially the breach of peace part.
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