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Maxum , nothing happening on my plane at this time, waiting on the insurance company to respond. Thanks for asking. I am sure our current stock market plunge hasn't helped at all.
As for Patty, remember as I wrote, neither of us knows for sure what happened, we weren't there. You can write a law, but there is room for interpretation, and a lot of room for judgment in the application. Here is Patty, about 100lbs, and unarmed. Maybe a little loud, a little tipsy. But most of all not a threat to officer or the public once she is out of the car. She is not some violent meth addict, or gang member with a knife. I think the cop should at least try to calm the situation, not exacerbate it. Not to ignore an impaired driver, either. What I have seen sometimes, is a cop who is trying to enforce the law, but there is a second level that what he really wants is the person he confronts to act like the cop is the most important thing, not the law, but the person. What he (some, not all) really wants is to be an authority figure and have people bow to him. I know cops have a tough job, one I'd never want, and I know some drunks can be a real pain. Wouldn't it be easier being a cop if you only had to deal with nice polite sober people? But no one drafted him to take that job, and discretion and judgment should be part of it. What did the "resist" consist of? Did she drive away after being stopped? Or did she just plead her case, even if a bit loudly? We don't know from here. But I am just a little suspicious when they add this charge later when it looks like they may not get her on the DWI.
By the way she could blame it on Jack. That's Roush, not Daniels, maybe the car was one of his special Mustangs that doesn't know how to go slow.
Being from N Colo. you may know of a recent case that shows what I mean. An off duty cop is working at a parking lot at a supermarket in Longmont? A lady drives into a handicapped parking space. The white cop angrily confronts the Black woman. She answers him back angrily, they both swear. She has the proper permit, but now he is mad so calls another cop too. The don't want to give the driver a parking ticket, they want combat. They knock her down, may have shot her with a Taser, and also attack her 12 year old daughter, breaking her shoulder. So how old do you have to be to be attacked by an adult male cop? Apparently 12 is enough. Of course the two are arrested and charged with resisting, disturbing the peace, etc. anything they can come up with. The charges are dropped in court. A sorry situation. The real shame of something like this is not that some people in some situations go bad, but that too often other cops and the system cover up the bad apple rather than trying to get rid of it. And the lady may win a civil suit, but guess who pays the cost? It is the taxpayers not the person who committed the violence.
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Bill Greenwood
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