Handcuffed tightly, shoved around and yelled at (Police Attack Pro-lifers on College Campus)

California Catholic Daily ^ | November 20, 2007

[Coleus]

Pro-life students arrested at Rancho Cucamonga community college by hostile campus police

Three members of Survivors, a pro-life campus outreach group, were arrested at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga on Tuesday, Nov. 13, in what was apparently not even a protest.   Operation Rescue reported that eight Survivors members were on campus to obtain permits for a pro-life outreach event at the college when campus police became aggressive.
A man who did not identify himself as a law enforcement officer shoved Joey Cox, 19, to the ground. The man then forcibly removed a tape recorder from Cox’s wallet, and attempted to erase the recording. Cox was escorted off campus and released, but without return of his recorder.

Brothers James Conrad, 23, and Jason Conrad, 25, were also arrested. Their mother, Cheryl Conrad, says that when her sons found out that Cox had his recorder confiscated, they went to the campus security office to ask for the recorder or a receipt.

“Joey had been slammed against a wall and handcuffed,” she said. “They forcibly took the recorder from him. Kortney Blythe, who was there to help them, got a call from Joey asking to get his recorder back. My sons walked in to campus police with a small video recorder. They requested that the property be returned. The officer told them it was not theirs, so they asked if Joey had been charged. When they told my sons no, they responded that they couldn’t keep the property if he hadn’t been charged. So they wanted a receipt.

The officer saw that James had a recording device and told him to turn it off. When James wouldn’t do it, he was asked to leave the building and the officer followed them out and confiscated the recorder. He handcuffed Jason and a plainclothes officer walked around and started shoving James in the back, and he didn’t identify himself as an officer. Finally, the uniformed officer told James that the man was an officer, before grabbing James by the arm. Kortney was videotaping this and the plainclothes guy pushed her back.”

After the Conrad brothers were taken into custody, officers tried to cover the windows to keep Blythe from videotaping their treatment of the boys. Mrs. Conrad says that her sons were handcuffed tightly, shoved around and yelled at for resisting arrest, when they were doing their best to comply with the officers’ orders. Cox, meanwhile, called police to request an escort back to campus to get his recorder. The dispatcher told him to just go back and get it. Cox was arrested and taken with the Conrad brothers to the West Valley Detention Facility in Rancho Cucamonga.  On the way to the jail, Mrs. Conrad said, an Asian officer named Tran called Cox a “retard,” and boasted of forced abortions in his homeland of China. After asking the boys if they were warm enough, the officers turned on the heat to make them more uncomfortable.

Peggy Cartwright, Chaffey College’s director of public relations did not return phone calls from California Catholic Daily, and campus police refused to comment.  Cox was charged with trespassing and released after one day. The Conrad brothers were held for two days on felony eavesdropping charges, which were later reduced to misdemeanor obstruction of a police officer and disturbing the peace.

[Coleus]

Click here to watch video of the arrests.

Chaffey College Police Chief David Ramirez
Phone number: (909) 652-6630
E-mail: David.Ramirez@chaffey.edu

President

henry.shannon@chaffey.edu

Public Relations
Peggy.Cartwright@chaffey.edu

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[Salvation]

Chaffey College

[SatinDoll]

These folks need to press charges. What those “rent a cops” did was illegal, period.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - keep an eye on this one

[Brucifer]

Nobody HATES like Liberals. It’s what they do best.

[heartwood]

Felony eavesdropping for openly using a video camera?

And on the other hand, Tran is a Vietnamese name. Why would an Officer Tran be boasting about forced abortions in his native China?

[Glenmore]

If you want to ‘fight City Hall’ you’d better have deep pockets and lots of stamina (or a powerful backer.) You can’t expect any help from the media. Without these things you’ll go broke and spend a fair amount of time in jail. Being right has essentially nothing to do with it.
Tree of Liberty, blood of Patriots, etc.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t see any cause listed in this report. That makes me wonder what else hasn’t been reported.

It will be interesting to watch what comes of this.

Even if the campus officers were dead wrong, they must have asked the kids to leave or something before this all took place.

[Hornitos]

Campus Police
909/652-6911

[RobbyS]

IAC, one does not use excessive force.

[the invisib1e hand]

police state...economy due to crest...culture drunk on violence and fantasy entertainment...moral absolutes disregarded...and leftists a step away from the white house.

not a good omen.

[taxesareforever]

Yeah, those pro-lifers are such a threat to the U.S. /s

[jonrick46]

So far they will only use their tasers. If the left takes the reins of power the American people will soon wake up with their jobs gone because of over taxation, government overspending, over regulation and over litigation. Then, tasers won’t be enough.

[jonrick46]

Good post!

[Das Outsider]

police state...economy due to crest...culture drunk on violence and fantasy entertainment...moral absolutes disregarded...and leftists a step away from the white house. not a good omen.

Reaping what we've sown-- Huxley's totalitarianism through inflicting pleasure instead of pain, unconditional acceptance over absolute standard. Perhaps, suicide over survival in the end.

[Das Outsider]

Yeah, those pro-lifers are such a threat to the U.S. /s

According to some, they are--because they represent a radical Taliban-like minority. Yeah, right! This is how one knows that their society is bent on destruction.

Thank you for honoring Matt Maupin. He's a relation of mine, and I think our old Huguenot emigree patriarch, Gabriel, would be proud of him.

[Bear_Slayer]

I was almost arrested two days ago for video taping an accident scene, on public property, while I was on public property, in Kalispell, MT.

It is a growing problem in the country.

I'm looking at posting the video to yuotube after I speak with an attorney.

[trickyricky]

"Nobody HATES like Liberals. It’s what they do best."

Can you imagine falling into the hands of a left-wing maniac, with a badge?
I never assume, anymore, that all cops are my friends,
which is what I was raised to believe.

[VolFan008]

I’ve always wondered why the argument isn’t brought up more that these places—San Francisco and Rancho Cucamonga (located in San Bernadino County) are named after Catholic saints, and therefore, it is the aggressors and those who are suppressing life who are violating the spirit of the land.

It just seems very odd to me that a place with a name like San Francisco would become a modern Gomorrah.

There’s also the issue that Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale...all were founded as and by religious organizations. Yet they defile their pasts on a daily basis.