Flagged down: Activists arrested in row over protest flag, allege abuse by Buncombe deputy

http://www.mountainx.com/news/2007/flagged_down_activists_arrested_in_row_over_protest_flag_allege_abuse_by_bu ^

[Pontiac]

We probably do.

I am very familiar with the way LEOs today think. I am the progeny of many generations of said (about 100 years), and the step-father of one.

I thank you and your family for your service.

I try as much as possible to give the LEOs the benefit of the doubt they have a tough job. There have always been bad cops, bad prosecutors and bad judges. The problem is IMO the bad judges. The bad cops and prosecutors come and go. The bad judges do lasting damage and the bad judges to come will build on what they have done slowing bleeding the life out of the Constitution and the Republic.

It takes effort to detect the bad judges and more effort to unseat them but it is the job of Patriots. And it is the reason I thank Jim Robinson daily for creating FreeRepublic as a place for Patriots to exchange news and views on the developments in our Republic.

[ex 98C MI Dude]

Ahhh. You reach the crux...

Yeah, LEOs have a very tough job, and sometimes reach the wrong answers due to what the anti-American criminal acts upon. It is the job of we the citizen to correct that answer. But we have been often ignored of late. Not acceptable.

Free Republic is one answer to that. A major answer.

But we must guard against the Democrat totalitarian answer, in the name of ‘the good of all’.

Any answer that defies the US Constitution isn’t acceptable. You know that. If you didn’t, you would not be here. Go with what they said. You won’t go wrong, in regard to our nation!

[steve-b]

The sheriff's office report states that “the man [Mark Kuhn] refused to identify himself and slammed the door on the officer’s hand, breaking the glass pane out of the door and cutting the officer's hand."

This guy got a door slammed on his hand hard enough to break the glass pane in the door, but not break his fingers?

And his fingers, currently stuck in the door, were cut by glass shards falling from the glass pane in the middle of the door?

Riiiiight.

[Pencil]

It looks like a toss up to me, honestly. It really depends on the facts of the case.

[Pencil]

Politics aside, on the face of this, it appears the police officer may have screwed up. The mere fact that half of the conservatives here feel this way does not bode well for the department or the officer.

[LeoWindhorse]

absolutely, the cop screwed up.
This is very common , police officers ,feeling the power of the law behind them , exceed the authority of their office
and trample the Constitution in their zeal to prosecute
their view of what the law should be.
Nope, if you are a LEO , you have to abide by all of the law ,as it is written . To know the law and not shoot from the hip
(no pun intended) The 4th Amendment should be considered daily by all that wear the uniform ....

[Ken H]

Update:

http://www.mountainx.com/news/2007/duncan_regrets_flag_desecration_incident_is_investigating

Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan told the Xpress this afternoon that he regrets the turn of events surrounding the July 25 arrests of activists Mark and Deborah Kuhn on flag-desecration charges.

Meanwhile, Xpress has learned the flag law was declared unconstitutional in a 1971 N.C. district court ruling.

[Ken H]

FYI. Update to story.

[LeoWindhorse]

I think I can tell from the names and the photo...I’ll bet ya anything these are a couple of smart ass yankees , moved down from up north . That is what sent the Sherrif over the edge .
Hard to stomach those uppity yankees

[Pontiac]

Thanks.

Although the statute is un-constitutional I still believe that the Khunes were wrong in refusing to present their IDs. The issue would have been much more easily resolved had they produced the IDs.

[who knows what evil?]

May God bless the person who reported these scum.

Yes...scum. Scum like Republican Presidential candidate Alan Keyes, who advocated turning flags upside-down back in 1999 as a symbol of a nation in distress. He even wore an upside-down flag pin on his lapel. What short-term memories we have...

[Rb ver. 2.0]

They're back at it and their neighbors as well.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

You have to believe the Ace guy.

They’re helpful.

[Ken H]

Charges dropped - http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770802076

[NOOBIE]

ok