The scratcher was the city nor the county prosecutor would pick it up. I had friends in some good places we were all of the Vietnam era. So his time was for naught. The cop did harass my wife and myself for 2 weeks after because he could not get charges pressed.

I look back on it now and realize what I did was wrong and disrespectful, not only to the cops, my neighbors, my family and myself. I for some reason have a different attitudes since November of 09. I have grown as a person and adult.

Officer Williams heard me. He stopped beating the other student, grabbed me and through me against a wall. I was handcuffed and a few minutes later slammed hard into the backseat of his cruiser.

He never mentioned a charge, though I demanded to know. On the way to the nearby precinct, I of course reminded him of my rights. He laughed the whole way. At the station, I was left sitting, cuffed, on a chair next to a desk for over 2 hours. So, I started singing God Bless America over and over, increasingly louder.

He finally came back, charged me with ‘intent to incite a riot’. What amazed me was that the only way a riot could have been fomented is if everyone including Officer Williams was aware of the article and also aware of my sarcastic connection to the article and also (this is the funny part) if all those people were inclined to stop their personal lives that minute and rebel collectively against the state. O.k. so D.C. is not a state, but you catch my drift.

Turns out Officer Williams a few months/years(?) later was the same D.C. officer who handcuffed a woman to a mailbox on “M” street and left her there for awhile. The woman sued him and discovered dozens of others who were victims of Officer Williams abuse. I was deposed for that case, but didn’t join the class action.

Before that night, it was routine for D.C. officers to throw Georgetown students into the PaddyWagon for nonsenses. Must have been a revenue issue, a power issue, or more likely… a cultural issue with the Academy’s admission standards.

Thanks for posting the blog entry. People need to know many police are not there to protect and serve anything…. but their egos.

And I am truly sorry for all the fantastic, brave officers who manage their profession WITHIN the law. Not only must they work alongside such trash… they also must bear the smell of it wherever they go.

Sean Mulvihill

Sean

“I’m a fan of dry humor, though I was really aiming for droll. Oh well.”

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Here’s something to shoot for from the master of droll, David Niven, at the Academy Awards on a memorable night in 1974:

rofl

Nice one. The very definition of “dry”.

Cops suspended for Obama check
DeKalb equipment was used for query
By MASHAUN D. SIMON

http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/cops-suspended-for-obama-103821.html

Perhaps the wrong thread for this, but the story may be of interest to some…

Mike S. ~ Very funny!

Great find. That says it all.

Thanks to all who fight the good fight.

This does not seem like much of a free nation anymore.

I generally dislike law enforcement officers as well. The only difference between some of them and the convicted criminal is just that. Conviction.

“We said, ‘No, we did not see that at all,’” Platzer told the Blade. “We thought he was trying to trick us into saying that there was physical resistance by Pepin to the arrest. That is not true.” ”
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It makes it kind of difficult to dummy up a police report if there are witness present.

What I have noticed in stories about arrests and court cases is that there is a propensity to hit an alleged wrongdoer with a raft of charges in hope that something will stick, even in minor cases. Resisting arrest seems to have become miraculously co-joined with disturbing the peace.

Every charge seems to have a pile-on of related and tangential charges associated. This isn’t good police woke, prosecution or justice IMO. This is just vindictive and designed to insure some, any, finding of guilt. This propensity befits oppression, not justice. What happened to just bringing someone up on the appropriate charge?