Brava!! (Unfortunately, the penalty, as always, will come out of taxpayer funds -- or insurance funds, same thing -- instead of out of this guy's pocket.)
She was chalking sidewalks, which I believe was recently ruled legal somewhere, haven't had time to search for it yet. It's not really destructive since it just washes away the next time it rains.
Kids in my neighborhood chalk the sidewalks almost every day. I'm talking little kids. They draw pictures and hopscotch boards. Guess they're criminals. They might even be Scary Terrorists!
Melissa Hill had a run-in a few months earlier with none other than Homeland Security over sidewalk chalking in Minneapolis ... Demand Progress Blog: Sidewalk Chalk Doesn’t Belong on Sidewalks, Minnesota
More on this earlier incident here, with a photo of the chalked sidewalk ... Minnesota Progressive Project: Political Free Speech Gets Handcuffs Grace Kelly's blog post includes photos of Melissa Hill's arms after an hour in handcuffs -- for chalking "Don't Enlist, Resist" on a public sidewalk not the property of the Federal Governement. Homeland Security is a cancer on our society.
Unbelievable. Handcuffing someone for writing in chalk. But love this: Poetic justice, anyone? As for the red marks on her wrists, some cops delight in cuffing you so tight they even cut off circulation.
The posts suggest this was just a mall cop working for DHS, not a law enforcement officer. Hope she has a lawsuit going for that one as well.
