Police Illegally Trespass and Arrest Woman in Her Front Lawn

Found on Indymedia on Wednesday, 22 June 2011
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While the police were searching and detaining the driver of the car one of the officers noticed that my friend was recording the whole incident.

Then the officer ordered us both inside the house. The woman calmly noted that she had the right to be on her own property and the right to observe the police activity unobstructed. The officer commented that he thought she was "anti-police" and approached the woman stating "are you seriously not going to obey my order?"

As we approached the porch, the officer said, "I'm just going to arrest you" and came onto the property to arrest the woman. She was put into a police car and taken away at about 9:55pm.

It must feel good to abuse your power and harass the commoners. There should be a three strikes law for cops: those who are for obvious reasons unfit to do the job correctly get fired. This case would be the perfect first strike because of overreacting, ignoring laws, threatening and arresting someone without a cause.