Man
Arrested, Charged With Assault For Pointing Finger At Cops
Disrespecting
a police officer is now a crime
A
Fredericksburg man faces two counts of assault for allegedly pointing his
finger at police officers, another example of how any behavior except complete
subservience to law enforcement is now being treated as a crime.
David
Loveless, who has no criminal record, was arrested and handcuffed last week
after he allegedly made a hand gesture at police who had testified against his
son in a robbery case.
He
now faces two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer by way of
intimidation and two counts of obstruction of justice.
Police
spokesperson Natatia Bledsoe claimed Loveless made a gun gesture at police
officers, but Loveless denies making any kind of gesture at all.
“I
don’t see how I was pointing my finger,” Loveless told ABC7. ” If anything I
was reaching into my pocket to get a pack of cigarettes. If that’s what they
saw, they have a vivid imagination.”
As
we have previously highlighted, almost weekly there is a new case of someone
being arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer merely for speaking
out, making a gesture, or attempting to protect themselves.
Indeed,
in some cases a person who is brutally beaten by cops is subsequently charged
with assaulting a police officer.
Last
year we reported on a case in which Dayton police tasered, pepper-sprayed and
beat a mentally handicapped teen and then charged him with assault because the
officers took the boy’s speech impediment as “a sign of disrespect”.
17-year-old
Jesse Kersey was charged with “assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest,
and obstructing official business,” after he became confused when police
started asking him questions. Kersey was tased and punched as cops threatened
to arrest neighbors who tried to tell them the boy was mentally handicapped.
Not
showing complete fealty to cops is now treated as “disrespect” and punishable
by a beat down. Having your head smashed in by cops also now qualifies as you
assaulting them.
Similar
to how cops think filming them is against the law, many are also under the
assumption that not groveling and obeying their every order is also an
arrestable offense.
Last
month, a city council had to pay a Nevada man $158,500 dollars after police
beat him up for “resisting arrest” when in reality he was having a seizure as a
result of a diabetic shock.