Posted on 04/12/2006 1:02:51 PM PDT by Cagey
ATF agents are always on alert for anything suspicious — including ninjas.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents, on campus Tuesday for Project Safe Neighborhoods training, detained a “suspicious individual” near the Georgia Center, University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said.
Jeremiah Ransom, a sophomore from Macon, was leaving a Wesley Foundation pirate vs. ninja event when he was detained.
After being held in investigative detention, he was found to have violated no criminal laws and was not arrested.
“It was surreal,” Ransom said. “I was jogging from Wesley to Snelling when I heard someone yell ‘freeze.’”
Ransom said he thought a friend was playing a joke before he realized officers had guns drawn and pointed at him.
ATF agents had noticed Ransom’s suspicious behavior and clothing and gave chase, apprehending him, Williamson said.
“Agents noticed someone wearing a bandanna across the face and acting in a somewhat suspicious manner, peeping around the corner,” said ATF special agent in charge Vanessa McLemore.
Ransom was wearing black sweatpants and an athletic T-shirt with one red bandanna covering the bottom half of his face and another covering the top of his head, Williamson said.
“Seeing someone with something across the face, from a federal standpoint — that’s not right,” McLemore said, explaining why agents believed something to be amiss.
Agents noticed Ransom peering around a corner and said when police sirens sounded, he took off running.
After chasing Ransom and identifying themselves, ATF agents detained him, turning him over once University Police arrived, McLemore said.
Ransom said Williamson told him the incident should not have been handled in such a manner and he would file a complaint with the ATF.
“I was in shock, to say the least,” Ransom said.
G.G. Liddy has an alternate solution, but we all have to practice it for it to work.
But we have ask Clair if it's time yet. I suspect the answer is still, not quite yet.
Heavens, can't have that.
At least they weren't out doing a little wilding for their fun.
Fashion Police, or Fascist Police?
I see them do that crap on Cops all the time. They pull someone over, throw handcuffs on them, then try to figure out if they've committed a crime and can be arrested. Now days, it's "handcuffs first, detection of a crime later", which I guess is somewhat better than "Shoot first, ask questions later", as the JBTs would like it to be.
Maybe, there was a woman in Lima Ohio that turned 114 back in 2003. Is she still alive? If so, maybe someone could ask her if her parents ever told her about how it use to be when freedom was real.
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