I hope Mrs. Cooper takes the LaPorte PD for about $5 million. This is just one more incident that convinces me that it IS the people against the police and it'll take more than a few dead officers to get their attention that they serve at the whim (supposedly) of the people. It's also in Harris County, well known for being heavy-handed in oppressing the rights of the people.
I'd like to see that stupid neighbor lady get the book thrown at her for making false statements on a police report.
yeah but we all know what will really happen is she will get commended for saying something when there might have been a problem. prime example of why the soviet union took so long to fall.
This neighbor is sure to be lawyering up big time right now. It seems that she did more than engage in a little fibbing to the cops.
Mother arrested for letting kids play outside; you could be next
InfoWars.com reports on Saturday, September 15, 2012, that a La Porte, Texas mother has been falsely arrested for child endangerment after a neighbor reported that she'd abandoned her children when she let them ride their scooters in the street.
The mother, Tammy Cooper, is suing her neighbor, Shelley Fuller, the city of La Porte Police Department and an unidentified officer in Federal Court.
In her complaint, Cooper says she lives on a “quiet, suburban cul de sac” and frequently allows her children to ride their scooters in the street. While they're playing she either sits outside and watches or she watches through the large windows on the front of her house.
On this particular day, Cooper's children were riding their scooters in the cul de sac when her neighbor, Shelley Fuller, called the La Porte Police Department to report that the children had been abandoned.
When Cooper told the responding officer that she'd been home the whole time, watching her children through the window, the officer went across the street to talk with Fuller. Fuller then told the officer, for the first time, that she had struck one of the children with her car while they were playing in the street. After another brief discussion, Cooper was placed under arrest for felony charges of child endangerment and child abandonment.
Courthouse News states, "Never at any point were any of Cooper's children hit by a car as they played in the street. Moreover, Cooper was observing her children the entire time they were outside on the date of her arrest and thus could not plausibly have abandoned them.”
Despite the fact that Fuller alleged she had hit one of the children with her vehicle, no medical response was called for or needed as it was obvious that neither child had been hit by a car or was hurt in any way.”
“Interestingly, Fuller was never confronted about her lie regarding striking the child with the car. Instead, Cooper, the victim of an angry neighbor, was arrested and charged with a crime in a public and embarrassing manner."
Cooper's children, whose father is away on military duty, witnessed her arrest and begged the officer not to take her to jail.
Cooper, who has a history of neck, back, and shoulder pain, asked the officer to cuff her hands in the front and he ignored her request. Instead, he cuffed her hands so tightly in the back that he cut into the skin on her wrists.
Cooper spent 18 hours in custody, in handcuffs, which re-aggravated her health problems and she may now need back surgery. She has spent more than $7,000 in court and legal fees defending herself against these false charges and she and her children were investigated by Child Protective Services.
"Cooper is seeking damages from the La Porte Police Department and the officer for false arrest, and from Fuller for defamation of character.