". . .I was walking with two friends, and we were -- ironically -- discussing the Gates arrest. We noted how so-called "disorderly conduct" arrests operate as a troubling pretext to arrest anyone police officers feel like arresting.
excerpt: ""Despite rapprochement with the Cambridge police officer who arrested him inside his home for disorderly conduct, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
A lawyer who moments earlier had been complaining to friends about police overreaction in the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., got a taste of the Gates treatment himself after loudly chanting "I hate the police" near a traffic stop in Northwest Washington, D.C.
When Cambridge, Massachusetts police officers arrested distinguished Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home last week after a woman reported a suspected break-in, the debate immediately focused on charges of racial profiling by police or misconduct on Mr. Gates part.
This is a pdf file of the arrest report which appeared at the Boston Globe site and was subsequently removed. Judge for yourself whether Prof. Gates' behavior warranted arrest and whether the police officer acted appropriately.
Newsviners, I am following the debate on the (racial????) incident in Cambridge, MA.
That Cambridge, MA police report presents such a damning picture of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates when he was arrested that an embarrassed Boston Globe felt it had to scrub it from its website after initially posting the report.
A woman violently shook and verbally berated her toddler-but this time it happened right in the courtroom and deputies didn't have to go far to arrest her.
An instructor at the Connecticut Police Academy has been charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly responded literally to a co-worker's "bite me" remark.
Marvin Frazer married a woman named Rebecca in New York in 2000. She left him three years later. "She said she was going on vacation for a week. It's been a very long week," Frazer said today.
They were the mysterious lights that appeared over Morris County, New Jersey that sent many residents into a tizzy.
- Christopher Brown found himself under arrest after he shoved and elbowed a pair of police officers named Noble and Peanuts. He just thought they were just horses.
Excerpt: Tammy Fausel said today that she and her family were shocked at what happened during her uncle's funeral in Gray Court.
Rapper N.O.R.E. was arrested following a fight with a customer at a Miami Beach hamburger restaurant, police said.
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (WCCO) ― A high school student in Wisconsin was arrested for disorderly conduct for refusing to stop texting in class, according to an incident report filed by the Wauwatosa Police Department.
Denying she was texting or even had a cell phone, she hid the phone somewhere on her body.
A boy is in the custody of Allegheny County and his father is in jail after police said the man punched a school principal and a teacher's aide Monday.
Three students from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire say they took every precaution they should have before they decided to take a raft ride on a floating chunk of ice.
Drunk and unruly fans are a huge problem in NFL stadiums. Between the drinking, the cursing, the fights, the cursing, the stumbling and the cursing, NFL games provide as much of a kid-friendly atmosphere as a night out with Plaxico Burress.
A woman accused of being a potty mouth is now getting thousands from the city of Scranton. According to the ACLU, the city of Scranton has agreed to pay Dawn Herb a settlement of $19,000 for "improperly" charging her with cursing at her overflowing toilet.
Two of the 284 people arrested yesterday appeared in arraignment court this morning. Jiro Kanno and Stephen Matthew Goodman stood in Ramsey County District Court on misdemeanor charges. Judge J.
The Long Island Rail Road's etiquette bully has walked — again.
The male passenger of a driver stopped in the 400 block of West Grand Avenue was told he needed to walk home because the driver was being arrested and the vehicle was going to be towed. "You're going to give me a ride home?" the subject asked. An officer told him to get out of …
35-year-old Brian Poulin of Hebron was arrested Sunday after police said he called 911 several times and asked them to bring him beer. Hebron was charged with disorderly conduct.
Bed-and-breakfast guests at the 1874 Harry Packer Mansion are periodically serenaded by the Carbon County Courthouse chimes. Now the owner has chimed in with a lawsuit.