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
HOFTDCWB?
Handing out flyers to driving cars while black?
Man, where is a video camera when you need one? I wish someone had this b*tch throwing her temper tantrum on video. Ditto for Cynthia McKinney.
That title made it seem like Emfume or whatever his name is was arrested. Who cares about some little guy. I wanted the big guns...LOL.
No doubt, I was hoping the same when I saw it, too.
But they are all of the same cloth, it seems. Must be a job requirement to get in the NAACP - being racist.
I can see it now: NAACP Job Interview:
"Do you hate white folks?"
"Yes"
"Hired!"
Not going to happen.
Cynthia McKinney with her congressional pin and race card will show up and save the day.
"American Blacks have absolutely no real political power in today's world....."
Why do they have to be black, why can't they just be Americans?
"Miss Slater is entitled to her opinions, but she is not entitled to obstruct deputies when they are doing their job," Davidson said.
#1 rule in America-OBEY THE LAW. Cynthia McKinney needs a refresher course on this rule...
Or, as Richard once said in one of his comedy routines "Nothing attracts attention like a flaming ****** running down your street at seven o'clock in the morning."
Worse than that, they aren't reproducing themselves, even including immigrants from Arica. They will continue to be marginalized as their population dwindles.
They could and they should. Until Blacks really assimilate into the rest of overall American society, they will go nowhere. Having the face of Cynthia McKinney, John Conyers, etc. and the rest of the CBC and NAACP racists ain't helping them one bit. First order is to abandon the Democrat Party and their present leadership.
American Blacks are toast politically if they don't wake up and dump their present leaders and the Democrat "Slavery" Party. There are only two dumber groups in the USA then Blacks, and they are Jews and Gays. Why? Osama and his ilk will make short order of both the Jews and Gays in America, and idiots like Jon Stewart, Stephen Spielberg, etc. don't get it. Yep, Jon and Steve, and all you Gays, vote Democrat and sign your own death warrant.
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