Ravenwood - 05/19/06 07:15 AM
Maryland apparently has their own brand of protecting and serving.
WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team reporter David Collins said Joshua Kelly and Llara Brook, of Chantilly, Va., got lost leaving an Orioles game on Saturday. Collins reported a city officer arrested them for trespassing on a public street while they were asking for directions .And adding insult to injury:"In jail for eight hours -- sleeping on a concrete floor next to a toilet," Kelly said.
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Hopelessly lost, relief melted away concerns after they spotted a police vehicle.
"I said, 'Thank goodness, could you please get us to 95?" Kelly said.
"The first thing that she said to us was no -- you just ran that stop sign, pull over," Brook said. "It wasn't a big deal. We'll pay the stop sign violation, but can we have directions?"
"What she said was 'You found your own way in here, you can find your own way out.'" Kelly said.
Collins said the couple spotted another police vehicle and flagged that officer down for directions. But Officer Natalie Preston, a six-year veteran of the force, intervened.
"That really threw us for a loop when she stepped in between our cars," Kelly said. "(She) said my partner is not going to step in front of me and tell you directions if I'm not."
Collins said the couple was released from jail without being charged with anything...Welcome to Baltimore.Collins said police left Kelly's car unlocked and the windows down at the impound lot. He reported a cell phone charger, pair of sunglasses and 20 CDs were stolen.
Baltimore City police said they are looking into the incident.
Category: Dumb Criminals
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Baltimore City: A great place to be from. A long way from. Did they used to have a tourist industry? Not any more.
Posted by: Andrew Milner at May 19, 2006 11:14 AMGoofy-ass Eastern states...
Posted by: BobG at May 19, 2006 11:51 AMWow. Um. "Lawsuit." If that interfered in me getting a job, I'd be pissed. Both of those cops should be so very fired because they're not good cops. They're power hungry bullies.
Posted by: Adam Lawson at May 19, 2006 2:18 PMIn Baltimore, in the Cherry Hill section of town, if you are not black you are either very very lost (as apparently this young couple were) or you are trying to score some illegal drugs to take back home with you after the ball game. The latter cases outnumber the former cases by about a gazillion to one.
Unfortunately for the young couple, they were treated the way suburbanites suspected of trying to buy drugs are treated in Baltimore. While such treatment apparently does nothing to slow down the sale of drugs, it apparently keeps the traffic moving, supplies the police with free CDs from the cars taken to the impound yard, and gets the city lotsa traffic citation money. And if they had been found with drugs in the car, they could have kissed it goodbye, for good.
And this is nothing new. When I was a mere youth of 16, back in Charlotte, NC, in the 1970's, I once drove a black classmate home after dark. Shortly after dropping him off, I was stopped by an officer who asked me what I was doing in that neighborhood after dark, and did I know where I was? After several minutes of questioning me, during which I think I made it obvious I was as naive and innocent as a babe, he let me go with an admonition about staying out of trouble. I have never doubted the stories told by blacks about being hassled for DWB, because I have been stopped for DWW.
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