Cuffed man ‘unfortunate victim’

Cuffed man ‘unfortunate victim’ - BostonHerald.com: "The man arrested at a Needham pizzeria Friday leads a human rights watchdog group, has penned op-eds for international newspapers and delivered a scathing and widely publicized address on Israel before the United Nations earlier this year. Hillel C. Neuer, 37, who lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland, was cuffed after an hourlong standoff with police when jittery pizza shop workers thought they spotted him with a gun. No gun was found. Neuer was charged with disorderly conduct."

He was arrested for saying things the people in power didn't like. So they sent their hired killers, the cops, to intimidate him.

That's how they fight freedom of unpopular speech. They don't stop you from saying it, they just harass you constantly until you move or stop saying it.

Cops harrass woman because of link

The Sheboygan Press - City tries to block link to police Web site: "A Sheboygan woman who runs a Web site often critical of Mayor Juan Perez has been ordered by the city to remove a Sheboygan Police Department link on her unrelated business site, a demand a legal expert says the city has no right to make. In a move initiated by Perez, City Attorney Steve McLean sent a cease-and-desist letter earlier this month to Jeni Reisinger, who was among the leaders of a mayoral recall effort last year, officials acknowledged Friday. The letter, dated Oct. 19, states, 'maintenance of this link could be construed as having been authorized or endorsed by the city and/or its police department' and should be removed 'until such time as the city were to authorize such a link.' Madison attorney Bob Dreps said the law is clear that neither Reisinger nor anyone else needs permission to link to the police Web site. 'It's a public site. (A link) is like saying this is somebody's address and helping them get there,' Dreps said. 'It just doesn't raise anything that any court has found violates any law.'"

They take away free speech and you people sit there and do nothing. You deserve what you get.

Cop goes crazy, just arrests everyone for dui

.: Corvallis Gazette-Times: Community News

Cox has been on administrative leave since Sept.14 while the department investigates potential policy violations, according to Lt. Dave Henslee. The department has remained silent about the specific reasons for the investigation, but Henslee confirmed that one factor was Cox’s arrest of a man whose blood alcohol level proved to be 0.00 percent and who also tested negative for drugs.

An attorney representing the man arrested by Cox filed a tort claim notice — formally putting the city on notice of the possibility that it might be sued over the matter — two weeks before Cox was placed on leave.

“My client should never have had to go through this,” Dan Rayfield, the man’s attorney, said. “We filed a tort claim notice saying, ‘Hey, there’s going to be an issue here.’ ”

That notice was sent to the city of Corvallis on Aug. 30.

Cox has been widely recognized for the number of DUII arrests he has made. Of the 35 DUII arrests made by Corvallis police in the month of May this year, 27 were made by Cox.

However, six of the 27 people arrested by Cox that month had blood alcohol levels under the legal limit and were not found to have been using drugs. And about one-quarter of the people he arrested were either not prosecuted by the District Attorney’s Office, or had charges dismissed by the court.

But all of those people still have the DUII arrests on their records. State law says arrests for motor vehicle violations cannot be removed from a driver’s record — even if the individual was never actually charged or convicted.

“An arrest for traffic is not expungeable,” said Corvallis defense attorney Jennifer Nash. So when innocent people are arrested, she said, “There is actual damage.”

I've got a great idea. Just arrest everyone and put them in jail. Then you can let them out only if they're good! It would make things so much easier for the cops, and that's the real point, right? Making it easy for the knuckle dragging thugs, that's what America's all about, right? Right?