Posted on 07/07/2007 3:40:24 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
'He really abused me,' resident says after arrest by Orem police officer
OREM - Two days after Independence Day, 70-year-old Betty Perry experienced an ordeal she said shouldn't be happening in America.
The retired military and U.S. government employee answered the door at her home Friday morning to talk with a police officer about her bone-dry lawn and ended up getting arrested and suffering a bloody nose. "What have I done?" she asked. "I'm old now. I can't believe this."
The Orem police officer, as yet unnamed by city officials, cited Perry for violating a city ordinance with her "sadly neglected and dying landscape," which resembles dry hay.
When Perry refused to give her name and tried to walk inside to call her son, the officer tried to arrest her, police say. According to a police news release, while she was struggling, she tripped and fell on her doorstop, cutting open the bridge of her nose. But Perry maintains the officer split her nose when he hit her with the set of handcuffs he was trying to restrain her with.
"As far as I'm concerned, he really abused me - he brutally abused me," Perry said. "For what?" The officer called for backup, because he was driving a truck, and the now-handcuffed Perry was taken to a holding facility in Orem. She was not given water or allowed to wash her hands or call her son, she said.
"After being booked, supervisors became aware of the circumstances and immediately released the woman and returned her to her home on the basis that there were other options available to handle this situation besides making an arrest and holding the woman in jail," Orem police Lt. Doug Edwards wrote in the news release.
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Good points. In my city ‘snow emergencies’ are declared and you are not allowed to park on city streets—so the snow plows have an easier job. Threats of parking tickets, ordnance tickets, towing charges, and impound fees are thrown around at the citizens during city council meetings.
Surprise ! There is nothing in the city charter or ordnance rules on the city books.
Not one vehicle has been ticketed/impounded in my cities history of 55 years.
Same goes for water restrictions here.
Smoke and mirrors.
Let me try and find it....and (as you’ll see by the hysterica crowd’s accusations) I’m going on record that I am NOT a cop - I have as quite a healthy mistrust of ‘supercops’ as anybody....
What law?
We lived next door to a neighbor who would call the cops when we parked in the street. Once, when my parents were visiting, once, when we wanted to clean out the garage, We thought they were just picking on us, but found out they had called the police on our both of our neighbors across the street, for a visitor and a worker. This got to be a regular thing with them.
Some people would rather call the cops, (like a kid tattling to mama), instead of going talk to their neighbor or just helping them deal with a problem.
That would be good...
Talk about victimless crime.. Beating an old lady up because her grass was ugly...Man what a bite out of crime that was..
The tax payers pay lawsuits...you know...thru taxes...
If you go to the web page you detailed, you will see this:
Jury acquits Ivory John Webb Jr. in the videotaped January 2006 confrontation, which came after a high-speed chase in Chino.
June 29, 2007
This photo shows a police officer shooting a bear, moments before an animal control officer on the scene was about to shoot the bear with a tranquilizer gun.
That video is a pretty poor example. For one thing, there's "no evidence the bear was about to charge" because the video isn't showing the bear at that point-who knows what it was doing if all you have is the video. Second, at the end, the reporter says it was the animal control officer who gave the order for the police to shoot.
From the video: "The animal control officer who gave the order to shoot says he did not want to but felt he had no choice because the animal was getting up on its hind legs"
So basically, you have a picture of a shaved-headed cop but nothing in the video supports that he's a 'roid fueled monster shooting bears for the hell of it.
Old paint? She probably had dated drapes too. That should at least rate a choke hold before cuffing the suspect.
same reason they "enforce" crap on old women, Christian children or any vulnerable person.
They won't fight back. The guys that pulled this were full of cr#p. C'mon... a watering violation and then booking the old biddy. Jeez!
Perhaps the officer was rough, perhaps the old lady was batty and does a little hysteric dance like my wifes grandmother does and got herself hurt in the process. I have seen my share of crazy screaming ranting from grandma enough to know that it is highly possible she made much of this crap up.
Need more info...
Thia has to get the prize for the biggest stretch yet just to get in an anti-Mormon slam
He should’ve knocked on the door and handed her the ticket or tape it to her door. If she didn’t like it, that’s her problem. Give her a deadline to fix the problem. Many people get tickets they don’t like, but have to pay. If you ignore the ticket it only adds up to more money you need to pay, then you end up in court.
Too late, bub! Get ready to pull out your department's check book...!
Only in America.
‘There is even a case where a black cop....’
‘In the video below, the black cop.... ‘
‘He knows that he will get a black jury....’
Feel better now? Get it out of your system? Why don’t you tell us what your really think about black people?
What the #=!! does this have to do with this story?
Really, I believe some people post in this vein just to make FR and conservative forums look bad.
You’ve got THAT one right... And afterwards the pathetic excuses their lawyer thought up for them will dribble out to the media...
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