Posted on 09/12/2015 5:32:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Florida mother-of-four who ditched her family to join the Occupy Wall Street protest loses police brutality suit
The Florida mom who left her banker husband and four kids to join the Occupy Wall Street protest just lost in court after a jury rejected her claims that police officers violently arrested her during a 2011 protest.
Stacey Hessler sued the city of New York in 2013, claiming that NYPD cops dragged her around by her dreadlocks when she was being arrested.
However, attorneys for the city said that the 42-year-old woman blocked pedestrian traffic and refused to move when the officers politely asked her to create space.
The attorneys said that Hessler tried to escape when officers were moving to arrest her.
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So she looked in the mirror and said, “Yep, I look good?”
Geez
White banker's white wife sporting ghetto dreadlocks?
What could possibly go wrong?
Seriously. And she wasn’t even minimally attractive to begin with. Why make it worse?
They divorced. She got an $85,000 settlement and he got full custody of the 4 kids and the house.
I learned this info by reading the article.
Nothing says Dirty to me like a set of Dreadlocks, I was standing behind a long ratty set one day and watched the bugs running up and down ,it made me ill.
If you are going to continue to read carefully the full article and base your comments on the actual reporting then it is going to be difficult for you to participate in the forum in the traditional manner.
I always say reading is a good thing.
Well - Corn rows might be in close competition.
Both hairdo "styles" are about as attractive as a mud fence.
And neither one is shampoo friendly.
I had a nice big Airedale who refused to live in the house. In the summertime he would get a short sassy hairdo but in the winter his hair would get long and matted exactly like this woman. Next spring as we scissored off the mats we would find embedded straw and seeds and mud and feathers. You know, like her mats.
Our current Airedale is presently asleep on the couch enjoying his weekend. He’s no fool.
Like in the old monies she ran away to join the circus
“dragged her around by her dreadlocks”
I hope none of her lice were hurt.
If they “wax on wax off” are they really hippies?
During this period, I was living in DC, and decided one day that I would go down to the Occupy area in DC and review it myself.
I came to realize upon arrival....that there were two Occupy camps.
The first one was behind the White House (north) about two blocks. This was the ‘punk’ camp, where rats were among the campers. Strong evidence of drugs (not weed, but the strong stuff). Garbage lay on the ground. Local coffee shops were complaining because of bad sanitation. Throw-up and urine were in the air...heavily scented. The whole thing was run by mostly 20-to-25 year old kids with no real understanding....but there were two or three guys who were the gurus and managers of interviews. They’d do their speak, and then kinda walk off. I got the impression that they didn’t want to stay much around their own camp.
The second camp was two blocks east of the White House. Oddly, this was an organized, fairly clean, and absolutely no funky smells or rats. They had a committee which ran the camp like a military organization. Oddly, it was mostly people over age forty (no college students). They had signs to convey messages. From this camp, there were various people that you could approach, discuss their views, and get a good general view of the whole strategy and complaint.....something you couldn’t get from camp one because everyone seemed to be doped up.
There were various people which came to note the two camps and the city itself suggested on several occasions that they wanted the two camps to merge....preferably over with the more organized and sanitary crowd....but the punks refused. After months of talking with the punks....the cops arrived one day and tore down their operation. Oddly, they just simply disappeared. The other group continued on.
Somewhere in the background strategy of the White House and Democrats...the Occupy theme had some purpose. Here we are five years later, and I have to admit that it’s the most marginal political strategy that I’ve seen in two decades. Other than news journalists trying to hype their message and pretend they were onto something....it was a one-star effort and never got bought by the general public.
Silly me. Instant comment, without reading the articles for hidden “facts”, is the correct way to participate in a forum.
I will get my head right. It will never happen again
IMO most people with dreadlocks deserve to be dragged by them.
I can't even stand to watch NFL football any more.
It is the quickest and easiest way out. He settled which meant he went for “no fault”. If he had gone for fault the divorce alone would have probably cost 30K then when custody hearing’s set in another 30-40K. Then she would have circled back on the divorce, then back to custody. It is a tactic used by divorce court attorneys (and usually only benefits directly the attorney of the spouse being divorced). It was cheaper paying out the 85K and retaining custody with far less stress and less time in court. The man and his kids can now move on in life.
I had next to nothing in assets when I was going through divorce after my former spouse ran her course. I was advised by two separate attorneys not to fight. The simple question was asked “Does it mean more for you and your kids to live together in your home and move on as quickly as possible or do you want to fight this out and bankrupt yourself?”. Given that context, it was easier buying her out and enjoying life with my kids and her nowhere around.
There’s just no way she would have won the case, or been able to even go after him. Video, pictures, social media posts would all have been proof of her being unfit as a mother, wife, possibly even being committed.
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