I got arrested for....

[osoab]

Swearing in the Park? WTF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N7Wj7VI5HY&feature=player_embedded


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N7Wj7VI5HY&feature=player_embedded

[Dogman]

His mouth got him in trouble. He did not know when to shut up. Not so sure about the woman. Maybe got into their faces. Probably asked to tone it down and they did not.

At least the walking donuts did not shoot or taze anyone, at least on camera.

[osoab]

His mouth got him in trouble. He did not know when to shut up.

Words only. I thought he was going to walk away in the middle of the vid. Took what 7 cops to bust a guy for swearing in public. Real public servants there. (I hope no one pukes on my sarcasm).

Is Minneapolis that hard up for cash.

[Dogman]

Words only. I thought he was going to walk away in the middle of the vid. Took what 7 cops to bust a guy for swearing in public. Real public servants there. (I hope no one pukes on my sarcasm).

Is Minneapolis that hard up for cash. Yea, there was a crowd there, plus you know how it goes gotts to have backup, and the backup needs backup,etc,etc,etc. Same here , any stop by a single donut soon another car will show up at the location. gotts to have that backup.

[osoab]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNEGw4fVU0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNEGw4fVU0&feature=related

[Ponce]

At the start when there was only two of them the people should have united as one to go against them..... and that's a small example of what is going on with this country where everyone is scared to be united as one to go against the government.

"You changed 1,000 lives and yet you are still the same, and that's why you were able to changed 1,000 lives"......with this I am telling each and everyone of you that you have to power to do something once you put your mind to it...and yet...you don't know it.

[madfranks]

Yea, there was a crowd there, plus you know how it goes gotts to have backup, and the backup needs backup,etc,etc,etc. Same here , any stop by a single donut soon another car will show up at the location. gotts to have that backup.

True that. One time years ago a couple friends and I were collecting golf balls that had been hit out of a driving range and a cop pulled up, got out of his car and called for backup - two more patrol cars showed up for a total of three cop cars and three officers. We weren't even on the driving range property, we were collecting golf balls in a ditch outside the complex, and we were threatened with arrest for theft. True story.

[Ponce]

Franks, when I was 16 (1956) I was in the parting lot of the Merlins stadium in Miami waiting for home runs ball, one came over and I got it (I was the only one in the parking lot) then this motorcycle cop came from nowhere and told me to give him the ball.......I ran like hell and he chased me on the parking lot, I finally got tired of this and waited till he was going by, I was hiding between two cars, I jumped out and knock him and the bike over and ran like hell.......it took him a while to come afer me, once again, but by that time I was already on the street and with a lot of hiding places.....I got away with my ball.

[Dogman]

Franks, when I was 16 (1956) I was in the parting lot of the Merlins stadium in Miami waiting for home runs ball, one came over and I got it (I was the only one in the parking lot) then this motorcycle cop came from nowhere and told me to give him the ball.......I ran like hell and he chased me on the parking lot, I finally got tired of this and waited till he was going by, I was hiding between two cars, I jumped out and knock him and the bike over and ran like hell.......it took him a while to come afer me, once again, but by that time I was already on the street and with a lot of hiding places.....I got away with my ball. And here is your reward for showing outstanding (Balls) for your act. Maybe a tad late but , what the hell it is the thought that counts.

http://noshades.lutzkicksass.com/hooters_decore2.jpg

;D

[madfranks]

Great story, thanks Ponce.

[Spectrism]

I think it won't be long before cops have made so many enemies of the good citizens, that they will be trounced when they try that crap.

One cop against 1000 citizens.... a dirty cop will soon be a bruised cop... if he lives. They are making their own destiny with these abuses.

[Joe King]

His mouth got him in trouble. He did not know when to shut up.
Exactly. They probably tried to cite him and he started cussing them for it.
Once the cop told him he was under arrest for it @00:04 mark, everything he did after that is considered to be resisting his arrest.


Not so sure about the woman. Maybe got into their faces.The woman clearly hit one of the cops @2:30 mark. That's why she got arrested.


Probably asked to tone it down and they did not.That'd be my bet.


At least the walking donuts did not shoot or taze anyone, at least on camera.That's how an arrest looks when a person is actively resisting said arrest and the cops don't use those things. Although the woman did get pepper sprayed.
She'll get charged for assulting an officer and interferring with official duty, and possibly for resisting as well.

I'd be curious to know if, and how much they might have had to drink that afternoon.
ie sober people typically don't go around in public yelling profanities loud enough to warrant police intervention. Does anyone here do that? I don't. Not while sober, anyways. lol

If it's illegal to swear in public there, the proper response would be to take the ticket and quit swearing.
Then plead "not guilty" and fight it to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Had he done that, he'd likely get the law overturned.
...but instead he probaly started spouting off about they couldn't ticket him for that.
So they stepped it up a notch. Then he was ok with a ticket. ::) lol

[Horn]

3 vs 1 and it took a full 10min, to get the cuffs on.

[Ponce]

Joe, by the SUPREME COURT......you can call a cop a "pig" and it comes under free speech......when you are arrested all that you have to give them is your name and address.......and you cannot run away from them.

[Joe King]

Joe, by the SUPREME COURT......you can call a cop a "pig" and it comes under free speech......when you are arrested all that you have to give them is your name and address.......and you cannot run away from them.
I don't think he called them a "pig", but rather used profanity in public which at the time he did so, was against the law.
He was informed of that fact and still continued to curse in the park.

As I said, the proper course of action would have been for him to have accepted the ticket and then fought it in Court. Now he's got a not-so-nice video of himself obviously breaking the law that will undoubtly be used against him in Court.

What we don't see in that video is whatever it was that drew the cops over in the first place. The video starts with him being told he was under arrest. So there was obviously stuff relative to the story that happened prior to the camera rolling.
Did they try to write a ticket and he refused to accept it? Who knows. But cops typically don't start at the level of arrest for minor infractions....but it can escalate to that level if one is being belligerent.

belligerent: inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness
I'd say he was that.