Ravenwood - 12/12/05 08:30 AM
Another dangerous criminal was caught in the act by Washington D.C.'s finest. The city may have one of the highest murder rates in the country, but that doesn't stop them from issuing $5 jaywalking tickets to the mortally injured.
Charles Atherton, a former secretary of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts that advises the government on architecture and design in official Washington, was hit Thursday while crossing busy Connecticut Avenue. He died Saturday night at George Washington University Hospital.He's guaranteed not to re-offend.Although witnesses said he was badly injured and unresponsive at the scene, police issued him the ticket. His family found it with his belongings when they went to the hospital.
Goodbye Tookie. The Terminator denied clemency. Thousands of future Crip victims are in an uproar.
Posted by: mikem at December 12, 2005 3:51 PMJust you wait all the bleedingheart will be out on the streets lighting their candles and protesting against TOOKIE WILLAIMS exicution and JESSIE JACKASSON and AL SHARRKPTON will lead the way
Posted by: sandpiper at December 12, 2005 9:01 PMHow very Afro-special. Snookie's friends among the witnesses managed to terrorize one of the victim's mothers to tears.
Posted by: mikem at December 13, 2005 4:22 AMActually, I hate to be the one dissenter but there is a reason to cite a man who jaywalks, even if he dies. If someone comes out between two parked cars and gets hit by a man who is fully obeying the traffic laws that ticket may mean the difference between winning and losing a 20 million dollar lawsuit. The jaywalking ticket may not neccesarily show the officer as the enforcer type but one who wants to keep a law-abiding citizen out of legal turmoil.
Posted by: Rhett at December 14, 2005 12:59 PMRhett has a point, but remember, we're talking about the Washington DC traffic police. They just want the money, and they'll probably sue the estate to get it.
IF EVERYONE IS SO HAPPY THAT TOOKIE IS GONE WHEN IS CHARLES MANSON GOING TO BE NEXT YOU PEOPLE DON'T SEEM UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS SICK AND SAD PART ABOUT THIS CRAP. NO ONE IS PUSHING FOR HIS DEMISE.
Posted by: keeshian at December 16, 2005 11:36 AMKeeshian,
Charles Manson is not on death row. His death sentence was commuted to Life when the death penalty was outlawed. When it came back around in 1976, there was no mechanism to convert his Life sentence back to death. It doesn't work that way.
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