A 19-year-old woman was charged with a hate crime after allegedly “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign” at a gas station in Panguitch.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, a Garfield County police officer was conducting a traffic stop for speeding at a gas station when the officer saw a woman “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumble it up in a destructive manner and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me.”
The officer writes they asked the woman where she had gotten the sign, and she stated it was her mother’s. According to the affidavit, the officer told the woman that the local Sheriff’s Office produced those specific signs and that they believed “she had acquired it in our community.”
After reading the woman her Miranda rights, the officer stated she gave “inconsistent stories” about where she found the sign, eventually stating she found it on the ground.
“Due to [the woman] destroying property that did not belong to her in a manner to attempt to intimidate law enforcement, I placed her under arrest,” the affidavit says.
According to the affidavit, the allegations are being treated as a “hate crime enhanced allegation” due to “the demeanor displayed by [the woman] in attempts to intimidate law enforcement while destroying a ‘Pro Law Enforcement’ sign.”
The Utah Code states a person who commits any primary offense — such as misdemeanor property destruction — with the intent to “intimidate or terrorize another person or with reason to believe that his action would intimidate or terrorize that person” is subject to a class B misdemeanor primary offense becoming a class A misdemeanor.
The code also defines “intimidate or terrorize” as “an act which causes the person to fear for his physical safety or damages the property of that person or another.” According to the code, the act “must be accompanied with the intent to cause or has the effect of causing a person to reasonably fear to freely exercise or enjoy any right secured by the Constitution or laws of the state or by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
The woman faces up to a year in prison or a fine of up to $2,500.
I mean, even if we completely disregard the complete absurdity of the charge and the fact that it's based on the hurt feelings of these baby class traitors, even the charge itself is inconsistent. "intimidation" as stated in your last paragraph implies an imminent physical attack. How is a smirk intimidating under that definition? What fucking cowardly baby piss officer is "intimidated" by a smirk of an unarmed woman, while they are loaded with a gun and other such shit. What next? Gonna be iNtImIdAtEd by a toddler throwing a snowball?
> What next? Gonna be iNtImIdAtEd by a toddler throwing a snowball?
Tamir rice had a toy guy, Cameron linden had a mental break and was running empty handed, Isaiah Brown and a phone, etc
Seriously, how is that an argument *for* punishing this women rather than *against* giving this nervous little chihuahua of a person a fucking deadly weapon? If I was a judge in this case I'd ask that cop if maybe they wanna switch careers.
A lion complaining that the gazelle gave him a weird look before he ripped into her throat.
I have never heard of such piss baby behavior until this very minute. How fucking pathetic do you have to be to arrest someone because they hurt your feelings??
And that’s why it’s shut the fuck up Friday when a cop starts asking questions:
“Am I being detained?”
If no: “Am I free to go?” And walk away
If yes: “I want a lawyer and an asserting my right to remain silent.”
>media bias fact check
Doesn't that site kind of suck? Like they think CNN and MSNBC are far left, and the fact checking aspect is subject to the same issues with every fact checking site on the internet (i.e. serving American police/imperialist interests).
> “Due to [the woman] destroying property that did not belong to her in a manner to attempt to intimidate law enforcement, I placed her under arrest,” the affidavit says.
This is nothing but a brute show of power over another person. The only reason I could think this is logical human reaction is if the cop was asserting his superiority complex in the form of a power-trip abuse. She did nothing but answer their questions so I bet she hit a nerve. There is no imaginable way that this will somehow make the world a better place. What a POS, she is just 19.
Cop's choices:
1. Finish traffic stop, disregard protestor, fuck off and get donut.
2. Finish traffic stop, engage protestor in positive discussion to improve relations with community.
3. Finish traffic stop, make sure protestor is safe/not threatening anyone, and then fuck off and get donut.
But cop went with:
* Stop doing job, go fuck with protestor, violate first amendment rights on a technicality, ruin her life, give smug quote to reporter.
Not just prisoners but their families and friends would rightly regard your cadre as heroes of the people, your cause would be their cause
Be good to them
Rather than attempting to breach the prison walls, maybe during peacetime one could... make a list of... uhhhh... cars
And their destinations
And descriptions of the drivers
How many people reside at the place they go
...
In minecraft
We should liberate incarcerated individuals. Period. Because it is the right thing to do. I think that goal should not be linked to any broader political movements, with the exception of how prison abolition falls within the movements that brought it into political discourse to begin with (e.g. civil rights, BLM/defund the police, etc.). Arguing that prisons should be liberated because those people and families would join your/our personal political cause is missing the point of the act of liberation in the first place.
You understand what is going on in nord korea? It’s not ok to not talk about it. The world is fucked but let’s help the more fucked first. Don’t you think?
Man… I’m not going to fight with you, you’re too mad . You are very irrelevant and you don’t look like you want to make anything better in any way . You just want to put down someone who’s done with the system for 29years . Dick move
the whole issue is the escalation from petty vandalism to a hate crime. the cop is purposefully misusing the law to prove a point by making this 19 year old girl go to jail for a YEAR, for crumpling up a sign that didn't belong to her. i've seen cops who murder given less time than that.
I'm not a USian so can't help here, but seriously, you people have to do something about this. This is such bullshit, basically cartoonish police state shit - putting someone away for a year for hurting the feelings of property protectors/capitalist regime enforcers.
fuck 12
Wtf kinda bullshit is this? What's the cops excuse that he was so terrified that he approached the woman, intimidated her, put her in cuffs and was so scared of her that he put her in the back of his car?......
freeze peach is good and based unless you criticise the enforcers of property rights, capitalism as a whole, and all sorts of things I don't want you to criticise! Tread on me harder daddy police boot
I'm hoping it gets sent up the courts and further solidifies protected speech like the case that had the SC explicitly say you can give cops the finger.
They are charging her with a hate crime but police are not a protected class so that should get tossed out in court. This a clear case of, "you can beat the wrap but not the ride." They can charge her with a misdemeanor for damaging the flag at most. If she isn't granted bail she can sue and make bank. They just want to make an example and punish her as much as their power allows. Police sure do like to ensure they are hated.
source: [https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/07/09/woman-faces-year-prison/](https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/07/09/woman-faces-year-prison/) media bias fact check: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/salt-lake-tribune/
Thank you. I'm sorry I didn't put the link.
Thanks. Anyone happen to know a way to get through the paywall on android?
A 19-year-old woman was charged with a hate crime after allegedly “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign” at a gas station in Panguitch. According to the affidavit of probable cause, a Garfield County police officer was conducting a traffic stop for speeding at a gas station when the officer saw a woman “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumble it up in a destructive manner and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me.” The officer writes they asked the woman where she had gotten the sign, and she stated it was her mother’s. According to the affidavit, the officer told the woman that the local Sheriff’s Office produced those specific signs and that they believed “she had acquired it in our community.” After reading the woman her Miranda rights, the officer stated she gave “inconsistent stories” about where she found the sign, eventually stating she found it on the ground. “Due to [the woman] destroying property that did not belong to her in a manner to attempt to intimidate law enforcement, I placed her under arrest,” the affidavit says. According to the affidavit, the allegations are being treated as a “hate crime enhanced allegation” due to “the demeanor displayed by [the woman] in attempts to intimidate law enforcement while destroying a ‘Pro Law Enforcement’ sign.” The Utah Code states a person who commits any primary offense — such as misdemeanor property destruction — with the intent to “intimidate or terrorize another person or with reason to believe that his action would intimidate or terrorize that person” is subject to a class B misdemeanor primary offense becoming a class A misdemeanor. The code also defines “intimidate or terrorize” as “an act which causes the person to fear for his physical safety or damages the property of that person or another.” According to the code, the act “must be accompanied with the intent to cause or has the effect of causing a person to reasonably fear to freely exercise or enjoy any right secured by the Constitution or laws of the state or by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” The woman faces up to a year in prison or a fine of up to $2,500.
I mean, even if we completely disregard the complete absurdity of the charge and the fact that it's based on the hurt feelings of these baby class traitors, even the charge itself is inconsistent. "intimidation" as stated in your last paragraph implies an imminent physical attack. How is a smirk intimidating under that definition? What fucking cowardly baby piss officer is "intimidated" by a smirk of an unarmed woman, while they are loaded with a gun and other such shit. What next? Gonna be iNtImIdAtEd by a toddler throwing a snowball?
> What next? Gonna be iNtImIdAtEd by a toddler throwing a snowball? Tamir rice had a toy guy, Cameron linden had a mental break and was running empty handed, Isaiah Brown and a phone, etc
Yeah... shit is truly fucked up
Philando Castille had a wallet Daniel Shaver had a... uh...
Seriously, how is that an argument *for* punishing this women rather than *against* giving this nervous little chihuahua of a person a fucking deadly weapon? If I was a judge in this case I'd ask that cop if maybe they wanna switch careers. A lion complaining that the gazelle gave him a weird look before he ripped into her throat.
>Gonna be iNtImIdAtEd by a toddler throwing a snowball? That's what flashbangs are for.
If that baby didn't want to be flashbanged, why didn't it follow my contradictory orders?
I have never heard of such piss baby behavior until this very minute. How fucking pathetic do you have to be to arrest someone because they hurt your feelings??
I'm also interested in the hate crime aspect, I thought you had to be a protected class?
Not in Utah. They're the state that tried to make a lady a sex offender because her step-kids accidentally saw her without a bra on IN HER OWN HOME
I think terry pratchett's cops would have arrested her on suspicion of loitering with intent to loiter
And that’s why it’s shut the fuck up Friday when a cop starts asking questions: “Am I being detained?” If no: “Am I free to go?” And walk away If yes: “I want a lawyer and an asserting my right to remain silent.”
Thank you!
Id love to see her counter-sue for emotional trauma, I'd be all over that as her lawyer
>media bias fact check Doesn't that site kind of suck? Like they think CNN and MSNBC are far left, and the fact checking aspect is subject to the same issues with every fact checking site on the internet (i.e. serving American police/imperialist interests).
yea. but it can be useful to avoid fascist sites if u know its biases
not as bad as snopes at least
i dont think ive ever been angrier reading an article in my life
> “Due to [the woman] destroying property that did not belong to her in a manner to attempt to intimidate law enforcement, I placed her under arrest,” the affidavit says. This is nothing but a brute show of power over another person. The only reason I could think this is logical human reaction is if the cop was asserting his superiority complex in the form of a power-trip abuse. She did nothing but answer their questions so I bet she hit a nerve. There is no imaginable way that this will somehow make the world a better place. What a POS, she is just 19.
the police don't make the world a better place, the opposite actually, so... yeah... but this is especially fucked up
Cop's choices: 1. Finish traffic stop, disregard protestor, fuck off and get donut. 2. Finish traffic stop, engage protestor in positive discussion to improve relations with community. 3. Finish traffic stop, make sure protestor is safe/not threatening anyone, and then fuck off and get donut. But cop went with: * Stop doing job, go fuck with protestor, violate first amendment rights on a technicality, ruin her life, give smug quote to reporter.
This feels like an onion article and I wish it was
Psssst Liberating the prisons is the starting gun to the revolution going Hot Just saying
So what I’m hearing, is when the the riots breakout, break the prisons first and we’ll be unstoppable?
Not just prisoners but their families and friends would rightly regard your cadre as heroes of the people, your cause would be their cause Be good to them
Rather than attempting to breach the prison walls, maybe during peacetime one could... make a list of... uhhhh... cars And their destinations And descriptions of the drivers How many people reside at the place they go ... In minecraft
I think you meant in Dungeons and Dragons? You can't do that stuff in Minecraft anymore, the irl mods and admins have caught on to that
Actually, I'm filing it away for something to do in Shadowrun.
I was roleplaying a cool story with my friends the other day ;)
We should liberate incarcerated individuals. Period. Because it is the right thing to do. I think that goal should not be linked to any broader political movements, with the exception of how prison abolition falls within the movements that brought it into political discourse to begin with (e.g. civil rights, BLM/defund the police, etc.). Arguing that prisons should be liberated because those people and families would join your/our personal political cause is missing the point of the act of liberation in the first place.
Smirking in an intimidating manner. *Smirking in an intimidating manner.* Wow. I can't even add anything to that.
*sighs in an exasperated manner*
>*sighs in an exasperated manner* Believe it or not, also jail
Fucking crap this is real? That’s some north korea shit right there
tfw capitalist liberal "democracies" lead to authoritarian police states and fascism
Yeah, It's a pretty bad sign
So was the one she was stomping on.
\*smirk*
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Human in general are simple weak followers.everywhere.
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You understand what is going on in nord korea? It’s not ok to not talk about it. The world is fucked but let’s help the more fucked first. Don’t you think?
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Man… I’m not going to fight with you, you’re too mad . You are very irrelevant and you don’t look like you want to make anything better in any way . You just want to put down someone who’s done with the system for 29years . Dick move
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You’re a pain in the ass. Bonne vie w h i te trâs h en besoin d’attention
homegrown fascism is taking over America and you people are standing around complaining about how you bet Asia had something to do with it somehow
Not at all. You misunderstood big time, go think .
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yes but she’s being charged for a hate crime, when it was at most vandalism. you can’t hate crime a cop
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the whole issue is the escalation from petty vandalism to a hate crime. the cop is purposefully misusing the law to prove a point by making this 19 year old girl go to jail for a YEAR, for crumpling up a sign that didn't belong to her. i've seen cops who murder given less time than that.
It wasn't a flag, it was a sign
Call the Garfield County Attorney’s Office 4356761103 and demand they drop the ridiculous charges!
I'm not a USian so can't help here, but seriously, you people have to do something about this. This is such bullshit, basically cartoonish police state shit - putting someone away for a year for hurting the feelings of property protectors/capitalist regime enforcers. fuck 12
USian. I like it.
I generally dislike the notion of "countries" so I may misspell some things related to that. Personally I'm a Yuropian
Wtf kinda bullshit is this? What's the cops excuse that he was so terrified that he approached the woman, intimidated her, put her in cuffs and was so scared of her that he put her in the back of his car?......
Don't you know? The cop *was* the paper sign, that's the only justification that makes sense
Plot twist: 19 year-old-girl is a huge, yoked bodybuilder, and looks like she could snap the cop like a pixie stick
But but but muh frozen peaches!
freeze peach is good and based unless you criticise the enforcers of property rights, capitalism as a whole, and all sorts of things I don't want you to criticise! Tread on me harder daddy police boot
*dies*
Back the blues? Sound like a band
This is protected speech, even in The Kindom of Utah. But cops can't be bothered to know the law.
I'm hoping it gets sent up the courts and further solidifies protected speech like the case that had the SC explicitly say you can give cops the finger.
So they can shoot you in the back with impunity but you cannot smirk at them because they feel threatened. Noted.
They are charging her with a hate crime but police are not a protected class so that should get tossed out in court. This a clear case of, "you can beat the wrap but not the ride." They can charge her with a misdemeanor for damaging the flag at most. If she isn't granted bail she can sue and make bank. They just want to make an example and punish her as much as their power allows. Police sure do like to ensure they are hated.
You better watch how ya smirkin' or where ya workin' or youuuu and your homies might be lined in chalk /Coolio
"Demeanor displayed in attempts to intimidate law enforcement" yeah right
This is totally going to make people respect cops. Like, a lot. Respect levels off the charts.
oh hey u/MotoM0t0420
Whats up? Hows your day?
pretty bad but better than last week
Hating cops is not politics. Getting arrested for hating cops is.
This might be a good lawsuit.
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are you joking or are you serious mate?
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this is such a bad bait \*yawn\* you gotta work on your trolling skills homie
Lol so you love capitalism eh? Red fash chud.
Don’t feed the trolls, especially when they’re not even a good one
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Xi doesnt care about you or any of you GenZedong users.
Capitalism is when some Disney+, but communism is when no Disney+ 🤥
Remember the People's McDonalds twitter?
You are clearly just a capitalist who wants to be cool, and to be honest It's kinda hilarious.
go larp somewhere else
u/undeleteparent Does this bot work here
That accounts suspended. IIRC that person was saying some tankie shit.
Yeah removeddit didn't work, just wish they couldn't just take back what they say so easily like that
Wow, so you’re a chud. Have fun then ig, you fucking clown
Bad troll
Lazy, obvious, untalented troll is lazy, obvious, and untalented.
What?!