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Posted on 11/06/2008 11:20:22 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
At least five people were arrested across the city after Barack Obama's rally in Grant Park, including a woman who slapped a Chicago police officer, saying police couldn't arrest her anymore, prosecutors said today.
Most of the others celebrated the historic occasion with gunfire.
Celita Hart, 19, stood silently in court today when she appeared for a bond hearing.
Prosecutors said Hart, who is black, yelled " 'White [expletive], [expletive] McCain--you white police can't do nothing anymore.'" With that, she reached through the window of a squad car and slapped a white male officer in the face, according to Assistant State's Atty. Lorraine Scaduto.
The incident occurred after police responded to a crowd of people celebrating Obama's win on the corner of 69th Street and Western Avenue. Hart, of the 7100 block of South Rockwell Street, was charged with aggravated battery of a police officer and was ordered her held in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Others who appeared before Circuit Judge Israel Desierto included Andre Murph, 37, of Aurora, who was arrested after police saw him shooting a handgun into the ground on the Southwest Side.
Scaduto said he told the officers he was "shooting to celebrate Obama as president."
Narada Thomas, 23, of the 1200 North Central Avenue, allegedly gave a similar explanation after he was arrested with a handgun near his home. "He said he had the gun because he wanted to celebrate Obama becoming the first black president," Scaduto said.
Kenneth Smith, 24, of the 6700 block of South Ada Street, was arrested after he allegedly fired a handgun outside his home. Smith, who is on parole for a previous weapons conviction, told authorities that "the police only arrested him because a black man won for president," Scaduto said.
Robert Morgan, 54, of the 5700 South Lowe Avenue, appeared to have simply been caught up in the excitement.
When officers arrested him for allegedly firing a handgun into the air from his back porch, "He told the officers, 'Everyone else is shooting off their guns--I figured, why not?'" Scaduto said.
When real life is stranger than "The Onion", you know you're one election past the sanity marker.
“Scaduto said he told the officers he was “shooting to celebrate Obama as president.”
There’s a pretty tasteless joke there, but I am going to resist...
Thug Nation now feels legitimized, and criminal chaos will become commonplace, just as in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
The Almighty On High will make sure that no penalty is ever paid.
Bwahahah...
You couldn't write this script.
Neat article about the first to be pardoned in an Obama administration.
According to co-workers, shots were fired in Memphis TN too.
Remember the videos of Hussein firing his gun into the air to celebrate? Coincidence?????
Their only mistake is in acting too soon.
They must not realize that Lord Buttock doesn’t take power until January-
THEN they can slap white police officers and say that they can’t arrest them anymore.
Hmmm... I don't think she came up with this idea on her own, nor do I believe that she's the only one that believes it. Somehow, the idea got spread among the black community that they can now engage in violence on white people, even police, with impunity. Somehow...
Ah, hail to the Obama voters!!!!
” because a black man won for president,”
Technically, Obama is the first half black or biracial man to become president.
Using the new math ( 50% = 100% when politically expedient ),
we could logically call Obama a white man.
Or bi.
Bet that would drive them crazy...
It’s a futile wish, but I wish that every well-meaning idiotic, PC, BO-loving lib living in Water Lily, Vermont and Uff Da, Minnesota could spend a six-month stint in the cities (not the ‘burbs) of Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, etc.
Most “white folks” who had the brains, or foresight, or money got the hell out of those places. But some folks missed the boat-some stupid, some PC (but I repeat myself) others just unlucky-bad timing, not a lot of money, hoped it would get better.
Those people don’t get any media attention, except when they show the cops wheeling their bodies out of their house now and agin, but some of those people can impart some hard-won wisdom—that a lot of other people are going to learn in the next couple years.
My husband is a police officer here, outside Atlanta and the night of the election he got the same thing. When he tried to arrest a goofball shooting a gun to show HIS enthusiasm, he was told “you can’t do nuthin’. We OWN this b*&th, now!”
And all this for the whitest black man we have seen in a LONG time.
Lmao at these people. Bullets were also fired at a community college campus in North Mississippi.
Yep, Bozo sure united the country didn’t he? So much for making everyone equal, it is just that some are more equal than others it seems. I guess it came as a surprise to that woman that she could still be arrested for assaulting an officer. Doesn’t she know she can’t get away with that until after Jan 20?/Sar
I think I see Obama's first pardon coming here...
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