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Posted on 06/26/2007 9:36:27 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
A Bradenton man is facing assault charges after police say he pointed his finger and yelled at an off-duty sheriff’s deputy
Two things ray miller says you should know about him. One, he hates Muscovy Ducks.
“Our parking garage is littered with their feces. It’s like little bombs through there,” and two, he's a law-abiding citizen.
He has no criminal record at least until now.
Miller says it started when he and his wife saw someone feeding the ducks. They asked the woman to stop, but she ignored them. When she finally replied, miller says she told him "I’m a police officer, I can do what I want.”
The woman was Manatee County Sheriff's Deputy Kym Bennett. Bennett and Miller argued for a few minutes about the ducks, and about whether deputy Bennett was trespassing on the property since she didn't live in the condos there.
Miller says his wife decided to call the Bradenton Police department to ask them for a legal opinion on what they could do about the situation. But when police arrived, miller was in for a surprise.
deputy Bennett told police that miller had been aggressive, and had pointed his finger at her. Bennet pressed assault charges. Miller was arrested and taken to jail.
ABC 7 spoke with an attorney about this case. Mark Lipinski told us "I've never seen a case like this, don't know anybody who's seen a case like this. I've asked all the attorneys in the area, they've never heard of anything like this."
Lipinski says he understands why miller is crying foul. He says, "next time you want to shake your finger at somebody, you better think twice."
Miller thinks the whole thing is absurd. He will be arraigned in May 29th.
This is from the Onion right?
Watch where you are pointing that thing—it may go off!
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That’s almost as bad as our elected officials in Washington, D.C. “I’m an elected official, I can do ANYTHING I want!”
The absolute arrogance of these nitwits...
“I’m a police officer, I can do what I want.”
shitcan this bitch
Lock them both up, everyone involved.
Let’s take heart in the fact that this idiocy is still unusual enough to warrant being in the news.
Now if only it were nonexistent.
Justice (but most likely not any of her close LEO pals) would have this clown's badge. Her statement is the most anti-ethical there is.
I added “donut watch” to the keyword list — I don’t know who started such a keyword but I’m grateful.
“Lipinski says he understands why miller is crying foul. He says, “next time you want to shake your finger at somebody, you better think twice.”
How do they get an “assault” charge out of this? I thought you actually had to touch somebody.
Floriduh is an arrogant, white trash-yet-third world, shithole police state run by Democrat thugs (in the ‘important’ places) and enforced by cops who think they are above the law. Think Reno 911 with none of the appeal and likeability.
Still doesn’t beat my arrest for “assaulting a police officer with a deadly windshield wiper sprayer”.
Yes, that was exactly as the cop wrote it up.
The fluid from my windshield sprayer sprayed a cop on the sidewalk. At the next stoplight my car was surrounded by cops, guns drawn and the whole nine yards.
Next the idiot cop brought me into a traffic court on criminal charges and after telling my story to the judge and making the whole courtroom bust up laughing, the judge through it out.
I really regret not saving the ticket for the scrapbook.
They are claiming (I guess) this is assault by virtue of it's "threatening" nature, although I'll confess, I'm really looking forward to seeing how they present that one in court!
This one will be dismissed before too long, I reckon. How could anyone in the legal sector put their name on this?
CA...
“Floriduh is an arrogant, white trash-yet-third world, shithole police state run by Democrat thugs (in the ‘important’ places) and enforced by cops who think they are above the law. Think Reno 911 with none of the appeal and likeability.”
Virginia is by far worse. See post #16
Ever been pulled for speeding 20 miles over the speed limit and get a ticket for “impeding the flow”
or how about
“Failure to obey traffic sign” where there was 2 stop signs on the same post and you stopped but you didn’t stop twice.
I couldn’t move out of Virginia fast enough.
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