She kept her car running the whole time? Bad move. Her defense of claiming she did not refuse to sign the notice? Hmm. Need to see something definitive on the law whether not signing a ticket is grounds for this kind of action. Cause so far, all I've seen is that it's not. But yet somehow the court says it is. Something doesn't add up.
According to the article, breaking that law doesn't give them the right to do that. Law > Your opinion
You most definitely can be arrested for being a moron and refusing to sign a simple speeding ticket. Her payday was rejected. It is a beautiful ruling. God Bless America.
You must have missed the quote that refusing to sign a ticket was a nonarrestable misdemeanor. So you're wrong. These cops should definitely be fired at the very least.
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Shocked this happened in Seattle. Course in Texas they would have let the cops off if they had also dragged her out of the car and shot her 3 dozen times. Because about 40 percent of the population has a police scanner on their dining room table, works security and otherwise worships at the altar of cop.
Tasers are stupid, cops shouldn't need them to do their job. Just cause they arnt a bullet are will not kill someone, they feel free to use it whenever they want
Me living in respectable freedom > stupid, loudmouth, delusionally entitled, yet deservedly tasered b**** Zap her dumbass once for me too.
It really shows a lot about someone's character when they extrapolate things like this from virtually thin air.
A whole lot of vitriolic anger, no? Gee whiz, I wonder where it comes from and why it gets focused on this thread. Golly, SouthernSelect (et multi alia user names.) He must hate pregnant women -- yeah, that's it. I'm sure if it was his own pregnant (white? hmmm) wife that was tasered b/c she was confused about the law, he'd be just as vitriolic. For what it's worth, I've gotten a couple of speeding tickets, and I've never had to sign anything. I've also been told by lawyers to NEVER submit to a breath-alizer, even if I've had zero to drink. She easily could have thought it was her right to not sign the ticket.
Oh, you were on the scene also? Tell us more. What was her tone of voice like? Did the officer have a mustache?
Were you? Or are you automatically coming to her aid because she's pregnant? Let's see.. she was speeding and received a ticket. The law there says you have to sign a receipt of the notice of infraction. She refused. The officer told her she would go to jail if she didn't sign it, and even called another officer in to come talk to her. When she refused again, they decided to arrest her. She refused to leave her car -- a car that was running and had her door closed. The officers told her she would be tased if she didn't leave the car. She still refused. The police had to open her door and take her keys out -- at that point they tried a "pain compliance" move that I assume she succcessfully fought off, since it didn't work. Then, they tased her on the LOWEST setting to get her to comply. Let's be clear: she was tased for resisting arrest, not for the traffic stop. How anyone cannot put the majority of blame on the woman is beyond me. The only rational argument I've heard against the police is that she was tased (3) times -- whether or not that is excessive is a good question. And on to the D&D we go!
Its just a bunch a cop haters who also want to "regulate" everyone lives. They only want to fight that power only becuase they are not that particular power. Speeding a school zone and acting like a spoiled nutball is wonderful (especially if you are not white and you hate the police), but eating a cheeseburger is an outrage.
I think it's more of the fact that people are naturally inclined to distrust police. They see a title that says a pregnant woman was tased during a traffic stop, and they immediately put the blame on the officers. IMO, after reading all the facts of the case, the officers were justified -- and the courts felt so as well. I don't want the police to spend two hours sweet-talking some woman to get her out of her car; there are better things for them to do. I have no problem with how they acted in this situation. That woman is the one to blame for putting her baby in harms way -- she knew they were going to tase her if she kept refusing to come out of the car.
Judging by some commentary in these type of threads folx would say. Well .. since the Nazis were the government at the time and they had the guns and authority . . . . Then all those Jewish folx should have just submitted and they would have been better off . . . . Probably say . .well if the Nazis had had tazers they would not have killed so many Jews. . . . and yes This type of police brutality and blind submission to 'The State' is analgous to Nazism to me. Rocket River
