[skyman]

Where do they get those guys?

With NY always a prime spot for more terror attacks I'm sure New Yorkers feel safer being protected from people eating candy bars, talking on cell phones, pregnant women, people in wheelchairs with CP and and 12 year olds eating french fries :-)

[Rider on the Rain]

New Yorkers ?????

[mhking]

Don't they have REAL criminals to go after?

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[evets]

belligerent?

I want my candy! whaaa

[DSBull]

She was probably smacking her candybar...

God I hate that, she should have been arrested and done time..

Just kidding...relax, I always wonder what the WHOLE story is behind these things are, having not been there, but it would seem to me that there needs to be more Valium prescribed to Transit officers.

[Prime Choice]

In September, a transit officer reportedly forced a pregnant woman down on the floor and pushed his knee in her back, after he claimed she was talking too loud on a cell phone.

I respect the uniform...but if a transit officer did this to my wife, he'd be taking the rest of his life's meals through a straw.

[Trillian]

"I want candy" song is now playing in my head.

[End Times Sentinel]

Gotta disagree with you.  I take a LOT of public transportation and there's a small but loud percentage of people who have no idea how or no inclination to follow the rules of basic decorum.  I don't want to slip on a dropped french fry, sit in a spilled soda or listen to a loud, stupid cellphone conversation.

If the public transit employee doesn't address it, that duty falls on me, and when people get belligerent with me, things can escalate real fast.

 

Owl_Eagle

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow

-John Kerry

 

[TFine80]

This is D.C., not New York.

[ArrogantBustard]

I predict that lots and lots of folks who do not live in MD, DC, or VA, and who know absolutely nothing about the MetroRail system will display their abysmal ignorance on this thread.

For those of you who haven't a f!@#ing clue:

1) Metro has its own police force, with juridiction on all Metro property regardless of state or district.
2) Metro operated on Rudy Guiliani's "broken window" policy long before RG was elected mayor of NYC.

[melbell]

"And in 2000, an officer handcuffed a 12-year-old girl for eating a french fry on a subway platform."

the only crime here is that I am working a full time job to pay this officer's salary. Can he please honor that by actually WORKING ONCE IN A WHILE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[orangelobster]

Having been twice on the receiving end of overzealous transit cops I can tell you that this woman is getting screwed.

The court should apologize to her and give her a month's supply of kit kat bars.

[DannyTN]

How can her case be ended by posting bail?

To be arrested she had to be charged with something.

[HAL9000]

The judge told Willett her case is over and that it ended when she posted $10 to get out of jail last July.

So this was a kangaroo court.

[KidGlock]

Transit police claim Willett was "belligerent."

Since when is that illegal?

[Publius6961]

Thanks for adding to my collection of "Headlines by illiterate people or adults with arrested emotional development"

Added to other moronic gems such as:

"Woman Arrested for Petting Dog"
"Teen Arrested for Wearing Hat Sideways"

[GovernmentShrinker]

This happened in the Washington DC area subway system, not NYC. If any NYC transit police officer was dumb enough to try such a stunt, he'd likely end up on the tracks, pushed there by an angry mob who would all conveniently come down with amnesia when other authorities arrived to try to get the story and figure out who to arrest. Fortunately, NYC transit police have better things to do with their time than arrest people for snacking.

[Revolting cat!]

Tomorrow's headlines today!

[Don Simmons]

I used to live in Bowie, MD -- all you really need to know here is that the "perp" is from Bowie.

I moved away from Bowie.

That's all I'm gonna say about that.

[Fintan]

I used to think most democrats didn't have jobs but apparently quite a few work as Metro Transit Police.

 

[antceecee]

Coming soon to So Calif. - once they force us all out of our cars and onto mass transit.