Posted on 06/28/2008 9:52:19 AM PDT by Coffee200am
FLINT, Mich., June 27 (UPI) -- The new police chief in Flint, Mich., has a new policy on low-riding pants -- those that ride low enough to expose the rear end can lead to arrest.
Interim Police Chief David Dicks said that he has been getting a lot of complaints from Flint citizens sick of looking at buttocks, Newhouse News Service reported.
"This immoral self-expression goes beyond free speech," Dicks said. "It rises to the crime of indecent exposure/disorderly persons."
Dicks said that any police officer who spots someone with pants that hang too low and show too much can make an arrest. Those caught in the act face up to three months in jail and fines of up to $500 if convicted.
Greg Gibbs, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, said that people tempted to test the limits should realize that not all clothing is protected by the First Amendment.
Critics of some attempts to ban sagging pants have suggested that the effort is racist because the style is most fashionable among young blacks.
You can't make this stuff up.
We’re police not plumbers!
So, are all plumbers to be arrested now?
Is this satire?
Just askin’ on account of the Chief’s name.
17 seconds.....LOL!
Not a “Right to Bare Arms and Stuff” Ping!
It is hard to beat the old timers here.
Best pair of thread-titles:
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Police Chief Wants No Exposed Buttocks
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Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must ‘kiss my ass’ for his support
June 28, 2008 9:55:07 AM · 11 of 12
Bobkk47 to yankeedame
So, any fashion statement blacks want to create will automatically be deemed acceptable by virtue of their perceived oppression?
I'm getting really really tired of this defense and the whole race card thing......One of these days, I'm gonna let loose with my own little "discussion on race" and I'll most assuredly end up being banned from every board I post on and quite possibly the entire internet!
“Critics of some attempts to ban sagging pants have suggested that the effort is racist because the style is most fashionable among young blacks”
Not a true statement. I work in “white” suburbia as a teacher and the white students are wearing this fashion.
We write up/discipline students for showing their underwear...girls or boys. When girls wear the low-riders and show undies, it should be no better/no worse than when the boys show their undies.
But it’s hard to discipline some of these children when their parents arrive wearing very little and showing too much (moms showing bra straps).
LMAO
Fat Man at Bench: It was a bullet, wasn’t it?
Forrest Gump: A bullet?
Fat Man at Bench: That jumped up and bit you.
Forrest Gump: Oh, yes sir. Bit me right in the buttocks. They said it was a million dollar wound, but the army must keep that money ‘cause I still haven’t seen a nickel of that million dollars.
***The new police chief in Flint, Mich., has a new policy on low-riding pants — those that ride low enough to expose the rear end can lead to arrest. ***
Glad to see that the Police have rid Flint Michigan of real crime and have the time and oppurtunity to fool with peoples butts.......
They’re just doing their part to conserve fuel. About an hour before starting their trip he fed her eggs, beans and cabbage.
So they got pulled over for evading gas taxes?
This is what's also wrong with our racist drug laws. "The Man" knows that weed and crack are most fashionable among young blacks.
;-)
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