Posted on 09/24/2020 7:35:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Alecia Kitts traveled to see her son play football in Logan, Ohio. Footage shows her seated with her family at the proper social distance from other families without a mask on. A police officer approached her and arrested her. After she struggled and resisted arrest, the officer in the video tased her into submission in front of children.
One witness, according to the Ohio Star, said that a child sitting on the metal bleachers got shocked when the charge traveled through the metal.
According to Tiffany Kennedy, the woman who shot the above video, Kitts had not been warned for not wearing a mask prior to the officer approaching her. Kennedy also said that Kitts has asthma and that’s why she was not wearing a mask.
“There is no reason to tase someone and arrest them for not wearing a mask,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy also pointed out the female officer who is shown running toward the Logan officer and Kitts at the end of the video was not wearing a mask – pulling one out of her pocket as she was in pursuit.
“Alecia’s mom said that when the officer tased her, the current went through the bleachers and zapped the kid sitting there too.”
Kitts appears to be socially distanced from others in the crowd and sitting with her family. “There were only 25 or 30 fans from our town on our side,” said Kennedy.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Mandatory conditions for spectators: Ohio State (contact sports)
Spectators must conduct daily symptom assessments.
Anyone experiencing symptoms must stay home.*
• Six-feet social distancing must be maintained between
individuals.
• No congregating before or after practices or games is prohibited.
MASK WEARING IS NOT MANDATORY! (read about it)
So, are you suggesting that the reports I heard regarding the facility policy requiring masks being conspicuously disclosed at upon entry, as well as on the restrooms, was factually inaccurate?
Certainly, if there were no law nor facility policy (or maybe even a facility policy that was inadequately disclosed) then I agree that the police were out of line unless there is something else we don’t know.
But, I heard a description (I don’t remember it verbatim) that characterized the facility policy as being more than adequately disclosed.
Regardless, even if the police were TOTALLY out of line and COMPLETELY unjustified in arresting her, she still resisted arrest for, reportedly, two minutes prior to being tazed.
Silly poster. Just watch what happens when you fail to comply. Arrested, tazed and worse. This entire COVID scam has us all in chains.
And a big payout. The police department in their statement admitted that the woman they arrested told them she has asthma and could not wear a mask. That puts her under the ADA since asthma is a disability. So as soon as she said that the school and the police officer are violating federal law, and violently so.
This is no different than a school requiring that everyone on the premises be able to climb a flight of stairs to sit in the bleachers, and then having the school resource officer arrest a person in a wheelchair for sitting in their wheelchair.
Good luck to the school and the police officer. If he is lucky his union and the government will pay his share of the damages award.
Except she wasn't. Federal law, the Americans with Disabilities Act, supercedes state law and definitely school district policies. ADA allows people to not wear masks when they, as the police admitted, have a disability.
The basis for the arrest is about as lame as arresting a blind person with a seeing eye dog because the school prohibits dogs on their property.
So, for the sake of argument, assuming she was exempt under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the police were ultimately wrong to arrest her (presumably she had explained that exemption to the officers as opposed to just asserting she was entitled to disregard the facility's posted policy)... does the Americans with Disabilities Act entitle her to resist arrest?
Let me guess. You already know the answer to that question.
No need to explain the ADA to anybody, they are obliged to know the law. Do you really think you could successfully defend an ADA claim based on the argument that a school district was not aware of their obligation under the law?
Nope.
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