Posted on 05/02/2015 6:11:03 AM PDT by don-o
Sure it is the most common explanation, police were widely known as Irish.
One that makes sense if one agrees that the term is older, is that it was short for “patrol wagon”, that also ties in with old slave terms.
“Slave patrols (called patrollers, pattyrollers or paddy rollers by the slaves) were organized groups of white men who monitored and enforced discipline upon black slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. Slave patrols’ function was to police slaves, especially runaways and defiant slaves. They also formed river patrols to prevent escape by boat. Slave patrols were first established in South Carolina in 1704, and the idea spread throughout the colonies.”
Patty was short for Patrick
Patty-Wagon just became Paddy wagon over time
Whole lot simpler once you realize that the Padric is the older pronunciation, “there ya go Paddy meboyo”.
The third stop was to put the other prisoner a 38-year-old man accused of violating a protective order into the van. The van was then driven six blocks to the Western District station. Gray was taken from there to a hospital, where he died April 19.The prisoner, who is in jail, could not be reached for comment. No one answered the phone at his house, and an attorney was not listed in court records.
bump to hopefully get the thread back on the main topic - legal and journalistic fraud, malpractice and conspiracy.
The Irish will do just fine.
But lebanese thespians
It seems to have been a short walk from the years of half truths to the now of full lies.
Homosexuals have degenerate minds. Lying is as easy as breathing to the degenerate mind. And the more interesting Psychological aspect is, both of these degenerate minds probably believe what they are doing with their lies is ‘justified’, moral even!
Wow,Thanks Don-O.
That refers to a 38yo being picked up toward the end of the trip—but that is a *third stop* and it doesn’t say he’s the man interviewed. In fact, it says the WaPo has seen the docs regarding the man interviewed—and yet doesn’t dispute latter reports quoting this guy.
I believe the detail re: the 38yo simply answers the question of what the one stop was before pulling into the station.
We used different vehicles depending on the number of prisoners. We had regular front facing vans and the ones where they sit sideways facing a metal partition that divides the van in half. We called that one the ice cream truck. Prisoners use to throw up back there all the time. I liked it better then the regular vans because you didn’t have prisoners sitting directly behind you looking over your shoulder.
Did you use seat belts in the paddy wagons?
Irish immigrants were referred to as Paddys, and occupied the niche in society now reserved for the blacks. Some differences; they did have a work ethic as there were no programs to feed and house them. But their drunken misbehavior was common enough that arrests were frequent, so the police pickup vehicles became known a Paddy Wagons.
Well, they're white munchers.
Lesbians.....Heroin Dealers......Burning Businesses
Man, just like a Democrat Convention.
Question comes to mind. What power / authority does the Governor of MD have to intervene in the Baltimore Freak Show?
Wow. The corruption in the City of Baltimore is unbelievable.
Bkmrk.
Hi peeps,
I think there was a scene from the “Fugitive” where there were handcuffs and leg braces. When the train collision occurred the “passengers” were able to escape.
Gwjack
He said he only told them he could hear banging and screaming in the last 6 blocks to the station.
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