I'm not sure that this one qualifies as police state, although plenty of other things do, this felt more like "stupid arguments that attorneys make to try and have things sound legal".
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:32 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:365543 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
