{"id":565,"date":"2005-02-19T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T23:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/twisting-tales-to-hide-abuse-of-power\/"},"modified":"2005-02-19T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T23:57:12","slug":"twisting-tales-to-hide-abuse-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/twisting-tales-to-hide-abuse-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisting Tales to Hide Abuse of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether you’re familiar with this case or not, please compare the following quote from today’s Albuquerque Journal (2\/19\/05) with the next quote from the Clovis News (2\/15\/05). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABQjournal: Clovis Man’s Devilish Decals Raising Hellfire<\/a> By Jeff Jones, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n

The case started back in December, when a police officer was dispatched<\/b> to the Clovis restaurant where Young works as a waiter to check into the “inappropriate display of sexual material.”<\/p>\n

The officer<\/b> found Young’s Ford Focus, took a look at the cartoon stickers on each side of the car and wrote Young a citation, according to the police report.<\/p>\n

The report does not specify who made the complaint that brought the officer to the restaurant.<\/b><\/p>\n

[VERSUS]<\/p>\n

Battle brewing over devilish stickers<\/a> By Mike Linn: CNJ news editor<\/p>\n

Chandler said the case came to light after the young son of Clovis police Detective Kirk Roberts saw the stickers. Roberts saw his son staring at the images during a family outing to an area restaurant, where Young works as a waiter, Chandler said.<\/p>\n

Young said he would have removed the stickers if Roberts hadn?t threatened to charge him with a felony. He said Roberts told him to remove the stickers, and came back to the restaurant two weeks later<\/b>. When they weren?t removed, police issued the citation to Young, who said Roberts is the first person to approach him with concerns over the stickers.<\/b><\/p>\n

?The only reason I?m getting charged with this is because some overzealous, church-going detective got offended by it, and got even more offended by it by the fact that I didn?t take it off after he threatened me,? Young said.<\/p>\n

Roberts sees things differently.<\/p>\n

?He apparently believes we?re violating his First Amendment rights … that right ends at my nose,? said Roberts<\/b>, who said he?s heard some complaints about the stickers.<\/p>\n

Notice how the story has ‘evolved.’ The original story strikes me as an abuse of power — where a cop sees something he doesn’t like and threatens a citizen. That’s completely missing in the latest version.<\/p>\n

I don’t want cops deciding where my First Amendment rights end. That’s for courts (increasingly stacked with conservatives). And I don’t want the media cleaning up the story to hide an abuse of power. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Whether you’re familiar with this case or not, please compare the following quote from today’s Albuquerque Journal (2\/19\/05) with the next quote from the Clovis News (2\/15\/05). ABQjournal: Clovis Man’s Devilish Decals Raising Hellfire By Jeff Jones, Journal Staff Writer The case started back in December, when a police officer was dispatched to the Clovis … Continue reading Twisting Tales to Hide Abuse of Power<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}