FROM YOUR LINKED STORY:
Nelson admits there was a verbal confrontation at the bus stop before she boarded the bus.
“The guy was scaring me the way he was looking at me,” Nelson said. “I didn’t touch him though. I know better than to touch people.”
Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said the woman has four prior convictions for assaulting police officers.
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The last sentence of the above extract said she had “four prior conviction for assaulting police officers”.
I suspect that if not for the veteran’s cell phone video of the incident, she’d have gone down for the 5th conviction for assaulting a police officer. That poor officer’s elbow must have been in terrible pain following the woman’s violent assault on it with her face! Maybe he’ll file for a 75% disability retirement due to his constant pain from that violent outburst by the woman.
As I learned, “assaulting a police officer” has nearly a 100% conviction rate where I reside.
That is due to the oft-used prosecutorial tactic that informs a jury that police officers never lie, and that their word is higher and more valuable than the rabble that they arrest.
Given what I’ve learned, the charge of “assaulting a police officer’ is a surefire charge to ensure that there is not only a conviction, but that any wrongdoing by the thugs wearing a badge is given adequate cover.
It is becoming as automatic a charge as is ‘resisting arrest’ which happens at an officer’s discretion. Most often, screamed at the subject AFTER they are handcuffed and thrashed around - so the jury can hear it as part of the audio ‘evidence’ from the mics the cops wear. Minus of course the parts of the audio whereby ‘peace officers’ are not exactly peaceable.