Posted on 04/02/2006 7:52:06 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
The local NAACP president was arrested Saturday afternoon on misdemeanor charges after an altercation with deputies after she attempted to hand a flier to the driver of a car involved in a Black College Reunion traffic stop.
Cynthia Slater, president of the Volusia County-Daytona Beach Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the past six years, was charged with two counts of resisting an officer without violence, disorderly conduct and obstruction of a street. But Slater and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office have very different views on what occurred on North Atlantic Avenue during the second day of the annual gathering of black young adults.
Deputies acted appropriately under the circumstances, said Gary Davidson, Sheriff's Office spokesman.
"Miss Slater is entitled to her opinions, but she is not entitled to obstruct deputies when they are doing their job," Davidson said.
Slater, who was released without having to post bail, said she never obstructed the deputies from doing their job and plans to fight the charges with the help of the NAACP.
"If they can do it to me," she said by phone Saturday night, "they can do it to any one of these young kids."
Slater walked across the two southbound lanes of traffic on the 500 block of North Atlantic Avenue toward deputies conducting a traffic stop in the center turning lane about 2:30 p.m., according to a police report. The passenger was in custody, and the driver was to be in taken into custody as well when he began to back his vehicle up to move it out of the northbound traffic lane.
That is when Slater reached the center turning lane and handed the driver a flier with information on how to contact the NAACP if someone feels he or she has been the victim of discrimination. It is here that the stories diverge.
According to the police report, Slater yelled and flailed her arms, inciting a crowd that had gathered. Slater said she never said a word to deputies when she went to give the flier to the driver of the vehicle and only became irate after a deputy grabbed her.
According to the report, the deputy repeatedly told Slater to walk away from the traffic stop, but she refused. Fearing for his own safety because he had only one subject in custody, the deputy attempted to grab Slater's left arm. When he did this, she pulled away and walked away back across the two southbound lanes.
Deputies who observed the scene then took Slater into custody across the street. According to the report, Slater continued to yell, scream and resist the application of the handcuffs.
Slater said when she turned to walk back across the street after handing the driver the flier, the deputy pushed her out of the way.
"I told him to keep his hands off of me," she said, "but there was nothing said before he put his hands on me. I didn't open my mouth. I did not say a word."
Davidson said deputies did the right thing.
"The crowd formed on the sidewalk became inflamed by her actions as she was yelling and flailing her arms, and the deputies had to gain control of the situation," he said.
Slater said she at no point impeded traffic and the only time she became angry was when the deputy tried to grab her. She said, after that, she complied with deputies, even walking back to the center turning lane when asked to by one of the deputies.
"Injustice to one," she said, "is an injustice to every visitor at BCR
had to. :)
lol
CHARGE THEM WITH RACISM! CHARGE THEM WITH RACISM!
"Emboldened by a certain Congress-person?"
That's why McKinney should have been decked,cuffed and transported.
I would be curious if this person waited for the light to turn green and staid within the cross walk before she headed out into the street. If not that would be one charge against her. If the police gave out j-walking tickets that would cut down on this activate of walking out into traffic.
Whenever a Republican is accused of something, all the California/NYC anarchists demand he/she apologize and resign.
When are we going to leave our foxholes?
The NAACP is called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the same reason the UNCF is called the United Negro College Fund, because of tradition. I don't think too many people would say that either term is explicitly racist, but they are archaic and using them in other contexts will definitely (and justifiably) cause people to wonder what exactly it is you're trying to say.
Seriously.
Throw away the key now that he's locked up.
The world needs more fair-minded people, and fewer racists such as NAACP members.
The NAACP has sold out all of black America for a seat at the Democratic Party's table. The Democratic Party is supporting Kweise Mfume's Senate campaign in Maryland as a reward for scaring the hell out of blacks into voting Democratic in the last few elections. Meanwhile, Democrats who have won because the NAACP scared blacks into voting for them are denying vouchers to black students in failing public schools. The NAACP ought to be broken up under the RICO statute.
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I'm going way out on a limb and predict that "racism" will enter this at somepoint.
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Racist.
Gee, this sounds a lot like l'affair McKinney.
Overwrought black females overreacting to cops doing their jobs.
Is it the phase of the moon, or what?
"First McKinney has problems and now this clown??? I can see a fun week ahead! I can see a full deck of race cards coming!"
Yes, and sadly, some of them will be played by posters here at FR...
I don't find it racist, but that may just be because I have no idea what you're trying to say.
So why don't they catch up with the times and change the name of this historic organization to the "National Association for the Advancement of African Americans"?
NAAAA!!!!!
Years ago, after Richard Pryor claimed a butane lighter had exploded in his pocket, and Michael Jackson's hair once caught on fire, it was said the two teamed up to establish a scholarship known as The Ignited Negro College Fund.
Is this woman related to Cynthia McKInney, half sisters or something?
Same behavior.
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