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Title: Florida Cops Use Tank For Routine Traffic Stop, Assault Man For Flipping Them Off
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Truth Voice
URL Source: http://truthvoice.com/2015/04/flori ... ult-man-for-flipping-them-off/
Published: Apr 12, 2015
Author: Virgil Vaduva
Post Date: 2015-04-13 18:14:30 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 251
Comments: 14
It is hard to imagine that this surreal story does not originate in a nation run by a violent warlord (or maybe it does), but it actually comes from Florida, where Lucas Jewell, a resident of Gainesville noticed local members of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Department were riding through town in a tank-like armored vehicle that appears to be a Lanco BearCat, an armored personnel carrier intended for military use. As Mr. Jewell believes that this is a gross abuse of taxpayers’ dollars and is opposed to the militarization of police, he found this display of military hardware on public roads offensive and showed the individuals in riding in the tank his middle finger and proceeded to continue on his journey. The deputies from the Alachua County Sheriff’s Department had other plans; they followed Mr. Jewell closely for several blocks and then decided it to pull him over in an attempt to punish and intimidate him. What appears to be paramilitary group of individuals exited the armored vehicle and immediately proceeded to assault Mr. Jewell, accuse him that he was receiving oral sex from his girlfriend and his middle finger gesture constituted an “improper hand signal” in violation of Florida traffic law. The suggestion that a middle finger raised in the air was intended to be a traffic hand gesture is ludicrous, but it did not stop these cops from attempting to bully Jewell into submission. The video below was provided to TruthVoice by Mr. Jewell and it illustrates the level of militarization that local police forces are reaching, including patrolling U.S. streets and using military vehicles to enforce minor traffic violations or punish peaceful citizens for protected speech. (Full disclosure: the video was edited to remove some personal identifiable information about the victims) As these police officers were property informed, an obscene gesture directed towards them is considered protected speech and has been cemented by a number of federal court cases over the years. This did not deter the cops from pursuing various accusations against Mr. Jewell and his girlfriend, none of which were sound or reasonable. Fortunately, a crowd started to gather and take pictures which prompted Mr. Jewell to start chanting, “Tell me what a police state looks like? This is what a police state looks like!” After this the cops gave him a warning for an “improper hand signal” and let him go. Regardless how one feels about making an obscene gesture towards police officers, the bottom line is that such a gesture is a protected constitutional right and nobody should be harassed for it, especially by heavily armed thuggish individuals riding around in what appears to be a tank through downtown Gainesville, Florida.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
G e s t a p o..... K g b...
Florida - Come for Vacation, Leave on Probation.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
Stopped spending winters in Florida long ago, due to influx of endless human trash.
I noticed long ago that Florida seemed to be the locale of corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
Just watch what happens to FL when the Coon in the White House "normalizes" relations with the Castro brothers. The Cuban Pete's from Havana will all be wearing Mickey Mouse ears and loitering in Orlando.
You'll love this, just hilarious. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. Some people find it uncomfortable to consider and discuss human trash. Fact of life, it exists everywhere, however some places in this country act like magnets to attract such. Florida is one.
Being polite is one thing, massive welfare subsidies for dysfunctional behavior are public policy and must be discussed openly. corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
Fact of life, it exists everywhere, however some places in this country act like magnets to attract such. Florida is one. I agree. I spend lots of time in FL in the winter, but we stay in the same place, a place where the cops will toss bums and I like it that way (and so does the island)
K g b... Immoral psychotic satanists
Being on an island is a good thing by all measures. Enjoy. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
It's funny, they are armed to the hilt and drive around in militarized armored vehicles, they only pick on people whereby they have far better armor and weaponry, yet, they expect us all to believe that theirs is the most dangerous job on the planet and that it's so dangerous. On top of that we're supposed to call them heroes when they're really just swine. Psychotic swine. Seriously, who takes their position seriously, I'd be embarrassed out of my ass to look and behave like that. Most of 'em clearly have a mental disease to one extent or another.
They've got that civil pension to think about!!
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
#3. To: Dakmar (#2)
Florida - Come for Vacation, Leave on Probation.
#4. To: Cynicom (#3)
(Edited)
at least nearly half of the news stories that made me question the value of humanity.
#5. To: Cynicom, Dak, X-15, 4 (#3)
Stopped spending winters in Florida long ago, due to influx of endless human trash.
#6. To: Dakmar, X-15, 4um (#0)
...his middle finger gesture constituted an “improper hand signal” in violation of Florida traffic law.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#5)
#8. To: Cynicom (#7)
Some people find it uncomfortable to consider and discuss human trash.
#9. To: Cynicom (#7)
Some people find it uncomfortable to consider and discuss human trash.
#10. To: Cynicom (#1)
G e s t a p o.....
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
#12. To: X-15 (#0)
(Edited)
#13. To: Katniss (#12)
Seriously, who takes their position seriously, I'd be embarrassed out of my ass to look and behave like that.
-Alex Kurtagic
#14. To: Katniss (#12)
Don't then. I sure as hell don't. On top of that we're supposed to call them heroes
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
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