Posted on 07/15/2021 7:00:25 AM PDT by lowbridge
A woman who was arrested last week after she stepped on a pro-police “Back the Blue” sign and threw it into a trash bin in front of an officer faces a hate crime charge under Utah law, records show.
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she identified herself in a Daily Beast article as 19-year-old Lauren Gibson, a college student in California.
The incident occurred July 7 when Garfield County Sheriff’s Deputy Cree Carter pulled a driver over at a gas station for speeding in Panguitch, Utah, court records said.
Carter said he saw Gibson “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumble it up in a destructive manner and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me,” he wrote in the probable cause affidavit.
Carter then got out of his vehicle, the affidavit states, and asked Gibson where she got the sign. Gibson told the deputy it was her mother’s and she could do what she wanted with it.
Carter learned Gibson’s mother lived in California. He told her the sheriff’s office produced the signs, the affidavit said.
Carter then entered the gas station and asked employees if it was their sign. It wasn’t, the affidavit said. Gibson was arrested and the police sign was booked into evidence.
While being arrested, Gibson agreed to speak to Carter, who again asked her where she got the sign. She gave inconsistent statements and told the deputy she had found it on the ground, the probable cause report said.
Carter’s report states why Gibson faces a hate crime.
She attempted to “intimidate law enforcement while destroying a ‘Pro Law Enforcement’ sign the allegations are being treated as a ‘Hate Crime’ enhanced allegation,” Carter’s affidavit said.
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This is what has become news. Pathetic.
Stupid laws are stupid laws, no matter who is offended.
Good.
Maybe we can get these stupid hate crime laws off the books now.
They do that to pro-lifers all the time, no charges even for destruction of property. Same intent....”taking out” someone. Mean people suck, that’s why we’re out there trying to help the eorld. This should go nowhere. We’re the Church Militant, not victims. Officer just doing God’s work here, all crime is hate.
“19-year-old Lauren Gibson, a college student in California”
Another successfully brainwashed snowflake
Can you hate an idea? Isn’t that what she demonstrated, that she hated an idea?
Hate crime laws are the establishment telling American citizens to shut the hell up when we do not love with what THEY love. Americans should never support this despotic thought crime crap.
I hope she sues the police department and the deputy and wins in court for violating her 1st Amendment.
I wish people would wake up and realize that in “New America” the police no longer protect life and property (BLM riots). Their new role is to enforce right-think and mass compliance (hate speech/Covid/Jan 6th).
Defund the police and move out to the country around civilized people.
About all ya need to know.
Some ideas deserve to be hated, which is why making it illegal to hate ideas is futile.
Please no.
Ticket her for vandalism or something.
But this thought crime BS needs to go. It is THE threat to freedom in this country.
“Stupid laws are stupid laws, no matter who is offended.”
My problem with hate crimes is, you not only have to determine the person committed and act, but WHY they committed the act. I’ve known a lot of women who expected men to read their minds...but I’ve never thought it was a good idea for one of those women to send someone to prison because of mind reading.
I have no sympathy for this woman’s views but would not vote to convict her.
She didn’t apparently steal the sign. It was on the ground. We are allowed to pick stuff up from the ground and throw it away. We are also allowed to have disagreeable faces and etc. freedom of speech. Freedom of expression.
If she knew me she may be surprised to learn I don’t support her prosecution. But I don’t.
But I am glad to see it applied to leftists. If someone can be charged with a hate crime driving over a BLM street painting they should be charged doing something similar.
I think the article said the local police department had made the signs. SHE did not.
Libtards are some of the most hateful people on the planet.
Lock her up.
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