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where are Al and Jesse to defend this poor black woman? oh thats right, Al is in washington being an asshole…

That Judge should actualy be arrested on fedral charges for infringing on constitutional rights along with being DISBARRED. yes you can take it to the North Carolina Bar and have her removed from office even befor the election MUAHAHHAHA i know devilish huh….
Anyway if this judge is smart she will take a second look at it and overturn her own ruling OH WAIT SHE CANT ooooopppps talk about a fuck up on her part.

Between The Agitator and this she’s not going to be getting much support in the near future, I think.
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Salisbury Police Officer Mark Hunter arrests Felicia Gibson for resisting arrest for refusing to go back inside her house as she stood on her front porch videotaping police making a traffic stop.

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So now it’s perfectly legal to arrest someone (using the set of circumstances and situation in the above article), under the guise of “resisting arrest” because they’re standing on their front porch taking photo’s.

I’m going to love to see the spin “Johnny Law” tries putting on this one!

Rail Car Fan

Rail Car Fan,

THE POLICE CAN DO NO WRONG!!!

Seriously though, I am surprised that this arrest was made, much less that they obtained a conviction. I’m pretty sure I don’t have the authority to order someone to go inside their house when they are just standing on their front porch.

I guess the rules are different in Bumfuck, NC.

Glad to see this getting some attention. This made a fairly big splash on reddit a couple days ago. The excuse given by the arresting officer was that the “situation was dangerous” and that’s why he ordered the defendant inside her house and had nothing to do with her videotaping the scene.

Now looking at the video, it looked like the situation was perfectly safe and that it had everything to do with singling out the cameraman.

Guess she should have minded her own business.

This is obviously another case of “contempt of cop”. The cop thought they were laughing at him. As for safety I mean really, the incident is at least 50 yards away.

Oscar:

She was minding her own business. The cop was not.

NC? What is the world coming to, a black person ( a woman at that) sassing a WHITE cop? This is what happens when you start treating them as human, first the buses, then the water fountains. Now they have the gall to sass a white man. Yeas them drakies just don’t know there place. Good thing we had a good ol boy cop and southern judge to put her in hers.

The conduct of the police is EVERYBODY’s business. Policemen who are doing their job properly have nothing to fear from cameras… only those who have something to hide worry that the public will see what they are doing.

Two cops were shot today in Alaska !!!
hummmmmmm wonder why?
People have had it with these “bully” cops
paybacks are a bitch cops !

Once again Johnny Law surprises me. I’m no longer pigeon-holing this guy, although I still suspect he sides a little too much with his brothers-in-blue. But we’ve seen a few cases now where Johnny agrees with us that things went too far.

Too bad my PC restarted since she nuked every single comment that wasn’t positive on her page.

But I did repost her one reply (that I say) to The Agitator:

“Re-elect Judge Beth Dixon I am prohibited by the Code Of Judicial Conduct from publically [sic] commenting on any pending case. My decision was very fact- specific and I do wish that I was able to discuss my thought process. The good thing about our system is that Ms. Gibson has the right to appeal my judgment and I take absolutely no offense to her decision to do so.”

Best response in that thread:

“Laura Victoria | August 29th, 2010 at 12:50 pm

“Judge Dixon could have issued a written ruling to express her thought processes, assuming she has any other than wanting police union contributions. I don’t see why she still can’t write one.

“And the right to appeal won’t mean much given the deference an appellate court gives to factual findings. As Her Honor stated, the case is very fact specific. Further, appeals are expensive and you don’t get your money back if you win. Trial court judges and DAs in misdemeanor cases especially bank on the fact that rarely will the apppellate option be exercised.”
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Michaelk42 recently posted..Unsurprisingly- Pogan gets no real punishment

It’s funny how the police are allowed to speed and the common citizen is not. The police are allowed to have illegal drugs in their vehicle and the common citizen is not. The police are allowed to carry guns to places the common citizen is not… And now the police are allowed to video tape us during traffic stops and you guessed it… The common citizen is not!

http://myrightswithpolice.com

I contacted the North Carolina Tea Party to try to get them interested in Ms. Gibson’s case, but they responded that they are far too busy to concern themselves with such a matter. They are too foolish to realize when they have been given a public relations bonanza.

Is anyone running against her? Many times these judicial candidates in small elections are unopposed. Who’s her opponent?

THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR
208 Fayetteville Street • PO Box 25908 • Raleigh, NC 27611-5908

Phone 919.828.4620

Report and disbar the ****

While I don’t know the circumstances of the Alaska officer shootings, it does not automatically mean that the cops did wrong. While we see many cases of excessive force and inappropriate use of the law here at PINAC, do remember that the cops do have to deal with some less than honorable citizens. And while I often disagree with JL, lets wait for the facts before painting all cops as “Bully’s”.

Is there a link to her opponent’s web site (not Facebook page) where we can make a contribution?

Her info:

Name: Hon. Beth S. Dixon
Courier Box: 053302
Mailing Address: 232 N Main Street Ste 216
Salisbury, NC 28144
Work Phone: (704) 797-3011
Department: District Court
Job Title: Judge District Court
District: 19C

Everybody give her a call tomorrow.
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Tom Joad #19,

Hear, hear.

Find out his opinion on that case and/or recording police activity before donating. You could be supporting someone who is radically more anti-citizen recording than Judge Dixon.

If you can vote there, surely you can vote against both?

The DA is trolling for votes. The judge is a rubberstamp. Both should go.

Holy Shit, I am from Rowan County, and still registered to vote there, I think I will have to go fly back home after classes to vote this November.

Note that the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys has endorsed her (over the male candidate – big shocker). Please let them hear about this issue. They can be reached at http://www.ncawa.org

I’m pretty sure the cop has the authority to tell her to go inside her house if she is in he vicinity of an arrest. It appears pretty clear that we have an insecure cop situation here, and I would say that his reasons for ordering her to go inside were some level of inappropriate or wrong. However, if she did not comply with his lawful request, she is breaking the law.
Yes, the cop needs discipline or dismissal.
But she may not be innocent!

This is a clear cut case of the law being used in a manner it wasn’t meant to be used. The cop was being an asshole – but staying within his asshole-rights. he didn’t do anything illegal, and technically he can arrest her. She shouldn’t have been doing what she was doing, but she shouldn’t have been arrested by the cop for such a minor infringement. obvious abuse of the power he’s given with that badge. both him and the judge should face suspension.

@Tom & nheath

He had no authority to tell her to go inside her own house.
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Well if she only wants her own postings about herself, and the groups and organizations she’s a member of on her facebook page, thats fine. It makes it much easier to know who to contact and let know about her nonsensical ruling.

http://www.ncteaparty.com/contact-us/

If enough people contact them, it’ll become worth their time to deal with her

http://www.ncteaparty.com/contact-us/

I just tried to go to her facebook page; either the Judge removed it completely, or she has blocked IPs, maybe mine? Anyway, it is interesting that I cannot get there now! perhaps calls to the TV networks could help bring this matter into more public scrutiny, especially in Salisbury NC!
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I would’nt vote for her if it was for cleaning my toilet!

Yes, she deleted her FB reelection page.

haha, nice work carlos, you’re learning what it is like to wield powers what like PZ Myers does!

Use them wisely. Don’t crash polls – PZ has that covered. And don’t try to slashdot any websites, obviously slashdot and reddit have that covered. But getting a judge to reduce her publicity footprint by merely mentioning her in an article? Totally awesome.

Her opponent is Douglas Smith – http://www.smith4judge.com/index.htm and his facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/Smith4Judge

@A #27: Are you sure? I just searched that web site for Dixon and found no results relating to this judge.

… ha ha… if you use their little search box at the top of their page it gets nothing, using Googles Advanced search for that site it leads you to this page:
http://www.ncawa.org/en/art/162/

@roger…

you have no idea what you’re talking about. you are the kind of person whose idiocy will allow these abuses to continue…

has nothing whatsoever to do with race or region. i am a white woman who got arrested for sassing a black cop in durham, nc… was charged with resisting arrest and would have been convicted by a black judge had i not agreed to community service and deferred prosecution. i’m still on probation and still doing community service.

did it have anything to do with race? hell no. it had to do with out of control cops who think they are above the law… it doesn’t matter the color of their skin or the color of the citizen’s skin…

roger, you are the kind of ignorant person who pulls the debate out onto tangents and takes the focus from the real problem…

Another moment of contemptuous insanity by so called authorities, Himmler must be consumed with uncontrolled laughter in his grave.

Absolutely excellent work in getting the word out Carlos, you are slowly becoming the spearhead for First Amendment rights.