[dashing doofus]

She sounds like a jerk. But what LAW did she break?

[abstracTT]

a cop can still arrest you on private property. the only thing he cant give tickets for or arrest you on are traffic tickets. atleast thats how it is in dallas.

[DB]

When the property owner’s representatives told her to move, that she was blocking their businesses activity she violated the law by not complying.

You don’t have the right to block a businesses drive through from conducting its normal business when told to move.

[mountainbunny]

I went to answer your post & realized that I had read a different article than the one posted (actually, I read both), and was thinking of the first, which included more information. I wasn't there, of course, but I can see at least two reasons to arrest her:

In the first article I read (http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/22/Northpinellas/Flip_side_is_told_in_.shtml" from the St. Petersburg Times) the police officer said that she approached him with fists clenched (which may be construed as threatening), and refused to move for 20 minutes or so after being asked (illegally detaining the police officer, since he couldn't move his vehicle).

The McDonald's manager backed the officer's version of events. Another witness seems to back the woman later in the article, but left before things escalated and admits that the police officer was upset because he was unable to move his car because of her car blocking it. So her best witness doesn't really help her as there is no right to prevent others from leaving when they ask a person to move.

A young man walking toward an officer with fists clenched, refusing to follow a lawful order to not trap the police officer's car after being repeatedly asked not to do so for 20 minutes would be arrested. It was right that she was, too.

[TChris]

She sounds like a jerk. But what LAW did she break?

Umm... Maybe she broke the law she was charged with breaking?

Florida Statutes

877.03 Breach of the peace; disorderly conduct -- Whoever commits such acts as are of a nature to corrupt the public morals, or outrage the sense of public decency, or affect the peace and quiet of persons who may witness them, or engages in brawling or fighting, or engages in such conduct as to constitute a breach of the peace or disorderly conduct, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

The officer found that blocking the drive-through lane of McDonalds for 20 minutes and screeching at him was Disorderly Conduct.

I'm inclined to agree.