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Title: Skater charged with assault on officer
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The Dallas Morning News
URL Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon ... 31706dnmetskater.304e63a6.html
Published: Mar 16, 2006
Author: ROBERT THARP
Post Date: 2006-03-18 02:02:18 by Starwind
Keywords: charged, assault, officer
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Comments: 228
Witnesses denied she was aggressor; internal investigation continuing 09:38 PM CST on Thursday, March 16, 2006 By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News A Dallas Roller Derby skater was indicted Thursday on a felony charge of assaulting a Dallas police officer stemming from a January incident in which she and several witnesses say the officer was the aggressor and used excessive force. Reports related to the indictment charge that Michelle Metzinger, 25, was belligerent and fought with Officer Ceaphus Gordon after the officer asked to see her identification because, he said, she had been roller skating recklessly through traffic on Elm Street in Deep Ellum. Michelle Metzinger According to Officer Gordon's report, Ms. Metzinger tried to gouge his eye with her fingers when he tried to handcuff and arrest her on a charge of public intoxication. The officer then tried to force Ms. Metzinger to the sidewalk using a "straight arm bar take down," but instead, she "rolled from the police car to the ground," his report says. Ms. Metzinger continued scratching and kicking the officer on the ground, the report says. Officer Gordon described his injuries as three 1/8th-inch scratches near his right eye and scratches and bruises on his chin. He described Ms. Metzinger's injury as a "small laceration that required a stitch," although his report indicates that she spent five hours at Parkland Memorial Hospital before she was taken to jail. Kevin Clancy, Ms. Metzinger's attorney, said he was disappointed that he was not allowed to present evidence to the grand jury that would have offered a different account of what happened. Eight witnesses to the arrest have filed affidavits saying that Ms. Metzinger was not intoxicated and that she did not resist the officer. The witnesses state that after Ms. Metzinger was forced to the ground, Officer Gordon put his knee on her back or neck while he was handcuffing her, which is not described in the officer's reports. "I think it's a travesty that this poor girl was charged with this," Mr. Clancy said. "I really do think that the grand jury did not look at the evidence." A separate investigation into the incident by Dallas police internal affairs is ongoing. Mr. Clancy said Dallas police have so far not interviewed any of the witnesses. Officer Gordon has had 27 complaints filed against him in his 14-year career, most of which were ruled "unfounded" or "inconclusive." Of those inconclusive complaints, at least two involved allegations of excessive force. E-mail rtharp@dallasnews.com
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Eight witnesses to the arrest have filed affidavits saying that Ms. Metzinger was not intoxicated and that she did not resist the officer. The witnesses state that after Ms. Metzinger was forced to the ground, Officer Gordon put his knee on her back or neck while he was handcuffing her, which is not described in the officer's reports. This should have been expected since those rats there needed to cover their asses. Clancy should know that the Grand Jury has become a tool of immoral prosecutors to initiate malicious prosecutions by manipulating evidence. It is no surprise that there was no evidence presented contrary to what the wished for outcome was to be. Clancy had better be a damn good trial attorney. Even juries at a trial are no longer one's peers. They are the peers of the system and seldom carry out justice in questionable incidents. This is true because people are no longer educated in truth and law themselves. We, as a nation and a people have, for the most part, lost our moral compass. The mass indoctrination of the lamestream media keeps the status quo in favor of the pludering usurpers who have stolen our birthright of liberty. This was never possible when people were well read and the media was independent, not as it is now, controlled by a handful of corporations. I would say that when the preponderance of evidence is presented, these charges will be beaten. Eight witnesses is hard to beat and those pimp prosecutors will have their work cut out for them trying to protect that whore Ceaphus Gordon. I would love to be in the public gallery to report on the upcoming civil suit to be filed against the creeps. If Michelle had good assistance of counsel, she would immediately have filed a Title 42 suit combined with RICO under Title 18 in federal court. That would cost the city at least $20,000 to have the shysters respond to it. ;0)
where the farg have you been hiding?
i tried to reach Jim by phone, fax, and email to no avail. he's seemingly disappeared.
bummer
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