Police Arrest Teenager with Food on Metro
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Anonymous
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Trains don't work, people get raped, real crime occurs - kid with food gets targeted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-transit-police-arrest-teenager-for-carrying-chips-and-lollipop-into-station/2016/10/19/1360a014-9627-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_metro-635pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory Metro Transit Police are being criticized for excessive use of force after a video posted Tuesday showed an officer pushing and tripping a high school student, knocking her to the ground, after she refused to throw away a bag of potato chips and a lollipop. The three-minute video, posted by a member of the District’s Black Lives Matter chapter, shows the 18-year-old in handcuffs, surrounded by three police officers, just outside the fare gates at Columbia Heights station. |
Anonymous
| Incompetence is only capable of addressing broken windows. |
Anonymous
| While I do not agree with the arrest, she had some balls to not do as she was told (as small as the issue was.) |
Anonymous
| Because she was eating chips |
Anonymous
| Remember the girl who was arrested over French fries like 15 years ago. |
Anonymous
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Did they have the right to search her bag without her permission and a warrant?
Chips? Food? Its against the rules but is it against the law? |
Anonymous
| I hate metro. Actually quit my job so I wouldn't have to take it anymore. I understand why people bring food. Have spent hours stuck in tunnels and stations. They open the doors and close them before everyone can get off the train and no one is able to get on. People eating is the very least if their problems. Focusing on stuff like this is the reason the system is falling apart. |
Anonymous
| Wow, I feel so bad for that kid. |
Anonymous
Seriously? I don't. They asked her to put it away, she defiantly refused. They asked her to sit down - she again defiantly refused. They made her sit. They didn't use excessive force and were actually pretty mild-mannered about the whole thing especially when being heckled by a very annoying woman at the end there. How else should they have handled it? And yeah - I usually think the police way overreact. And she was not what I would really call a kid... |
Anonymous
| I don't understand the reason for the arrest. I understand that food is technically not allowed on Metro, but what do we say about all the yuppies in Lulu Lemon with a Whole Foods bag? I see this as prejudicial enforcement. |
Anonymous
Too bad, so sad. Start following police orders kids!!! |
Anonymous
What? How much kale did you smoke today? What does tge Lulu Lemon store have to do with the metro system? |
Anonymous
I think the pp's main point was that they go on the metro with bags full of food. How did you get so hung on up on the lulu lemons?...smh |
Anonymous
| Didn't look like excessive force to me...watched the video... when you don't listen to officers they generally make you do whatever they asked. I'm so sick of watching people not only ignore officers orders but flat out refuse, and then complain when they are forced to do so crying "racism". If she had thrown out her food like the signs on the wall say, instead of eating it and flaunting her disregard for rules...well we wouldn't be here... |
Anonymous
| Arrested for not obeying police orders??!! El tuff- o shit- o. |