Welcome To Utah. No Smirking Allowed.
Let’s hear it for Utah.
A 19-year-old woman was charged Friday with a hate crime accusing her of stomping on a pro-police sign and throwing it in the trash — all in front of an officer who had just given her friend a speeding ticket.
And in Utah, Honey, that’s a hate crime. And the officer filed charges against a 19 year old girl and swore on a stack of Bibles that …
“I observed one of the friends … stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumple it up in a destructive manner and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me,” the deputy wrote in the affidavit.
She smirked. He felt intimidated. Okay, so who’s the snowflake now, Wilbur?
I gotta tell ya this – if it had been a Black Lives Matter sign, they would have given her a medal, an AK47, a cute camo hat, and a free license to hunt liberals.
I guess I need to study Utah law to find out if rolling your eyes is considered a terrorist threat. If so, I’d have to go there with a bag over my head.
Hey, it’s Utah – smirking there *is* intimidating.
Even someone who is armed and dangerous like a PO can be intimidated by an unarmed civilian.
1If smirking is against the law now, Trump should serve a life sentence.
2Gee, how scary for the ociffer. I’m sure he was afraid she’d throw him to the gutter and put her knee on his throat or give him a wedgee in his church underwear.
3Pretty ridiculous charge, but compared with some police departments she got off easy.
In L.A., driving while Black AND smirking when pulled over by a cop could be life threatening.
4Doesn’t crumpling a sign and tossing it in the trash count as free speech in Utah? And when did smirking become a crime? As TexasTrailerParkTrash wrote upthread, the Former Guy should be serving a life sentence, then.
Some poor scared cop needs to read the Constitution. As for the laws of the state of Utah, I hope this woman’s lawyer gives him a refresher course. Little wonder that a lot of people don’t respect the police.
5OT I know, but this must be critical race theory to the absolute worst secretary of HUD in history:
Ben Carson tells CPAC: Welfare ‘hurt Black communities’ more than slavery – Raw Story –
https://www.rawstory.com/ben-carson-slavery/
6Really? She smirked?
That deputy is a special snowflake, isn’t he?
7I know I should be outraged by this, but I laughed out loud instead. So thanks, JJ!
8Seen on s shirt in Wells, NV: Eat, drink and be merry for tonight you may be in Utah
9Speaking of special snowflakes…Pauline Bauer. That should be fun to follow.
I have two words for her…Shaeffer Cox.
10another point of view for the officer. apparently the female was as obnoxious as any of her male counterparts. he was teaching her a lesson short of shooting her. IMO, that’s kinda considerate of him.
11DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW
https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law
Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
12For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.
Being intimidated by a woman smirking leads me to believe that he has chosen the wrong profession. Someone that easily intimidated ought to take up a job such as a short order cook or possibly a waiter or maybe a dishwasher in order to prevent his sensitivity from scarring his psyche.
13I’m not sure I’d feel entirely safe having my safety in the hands of a man who is so easily intimidated by a 19-year old woman. I think he should be fired so we can get someone in the job who isn’t scared of his own shadow.
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