Scholar Gets a Beatdown for Jaywalking - Right Here at Home in America
cn | 12 January, 2007 12:59So yesterday CNN reported that a British historian and professor at Tufts University was thrown to the ground, handcuffed and arrested in Atlanta for jaywalking.
"Where I'm from, you don't associate young gentlemen in bomber jackets with the police. But he was extremely upset I had questioned his bona fides," said the historian, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.
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Officer Kevin Leonpacher said he was in uniform as he directed pedestrians to use crosswalks in front of the downtown Hilton Hotel.
He said Fernandez-Armesto shrugged him off, walked away and repeatedly refused to show an ID after the officer told him to stop and warned him he could be arrested, police said.
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Fernandez-Armesto said he suffered a gash on his forehead and a bruise on his wrist. He spent eight hours in custody, but the charges of jaywalking and disorderly conduct were dropped after he appeared in traffic court and said any arrest record could jeopardize his immigration status in the United States, police said.
And people don't believe that America is a police state?
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