Welcome to the police state On Jul 18, 2013 12:27 PM, "Judah McAuley" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Interesting (and by that, I mean ludicrous) case in Portland involving a > police run in. Basics of the case are that a dude was jaywalking as he > tried to get to work in the morning. A police officer, for what ever > reason, was having a bad day and flags the guy down and was pretty > obviously upset. Asks the jaywalker for identification. Jaywalker asks why > as he goes to pull it out. Officer isn't having any of that, grabs him, > slams him down to the sidewalk, handcuffs him, tells him he is being > arrested and takes him down to the precinct. > > Jaywalker is now suing, claiming injury, distress and wrongful arrest in > what (I think) most people would agree is a bit of an overreaction on the > part of the officer to jaywalking. > > Now, the really interesting part is that the City is defending itself > against the issue of wrongful arrest by saying that jaywalking is not > an arrestable offense. It isn't even technically a crime, it is a > violation. So the reasoning goes that if something is not an arrestable > offense, obviously the jaywalker was not arrested, no matter what it looked > like. > > Uh...what? > > > http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/07/portland_jaywalking_case_raise.html > > Definitely not something I get. At all. > > Cheers, > Judah > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:365541 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
