Vere are your Vucking Papers Bitch! Do not defy us! Ve vill give you da hose!
A few brave demonstrators, including Escondido City Council candidate Carmen Miranda and anti-checkpoint activist Jenifer Leiendecker, held a protest Saturday evening at the intersection of North Broadway and El Norte Parkway.
At the same time, police were holding a Nazi occupation like checkpoint a few blocks east on El Norte Parkway and North Ash Street.
These checkpoints are an abomination occurring on public streets by zealots with no concept of the bill of rights or the constitution of the United States. SP
Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher who dreamed up and put in place these revenue raking-in checkpoints says protesters who have been holding signs alerting drivers to his department’s checkpoints are endangering the community —- by warning off potentially drunken drivers and prompting others to drive recklessly to avoid the stops.
I suppose we could point out where the donuts are being delivered to as a way of warning decent citizens that they are about to be humiliated and shaken down. (Yes the cops have tables set up with coffee and donuts for themselves while they expend little to no effort and call it work.)
In recent weeks, a group of protesters have held signs that read: “Checkpoint,” “White Collar Crime Ahead” and “Car Thieves Ahead.”
The demonstrators say they are exercising their First Amendment right to protest.
But Maher says they are putting people at risk.
Never mind that CHECKPOINTS are FUCKING ILLEGAL and that only NAZIS would implement them!
Now don’t get the SP wrong… illegal immigrants, unlicensed drivers, and drunks must be dealt with.
BUT NOT AT THE COST OF OUR FREEDOM! SP
“I think it’s dangerous that they are trying to help drunk drivers avoid the checkpoints,” Maher (nazi?) said.
Maher said the protesters should find another way to express their opposition to the checkpoints.
(This dick-head should consider the options left when a population is oppressed by a police state)
The protests are the latest development in a long-running dispute between many residents and police over the use of the checkpoints, which the department ramped up in recent years with the excuse of trying to to curb hit-and-run crashes.
Ever hear of border enforcement? PIGS!
Critics say they disproportionately affect illegal immigrants, most of whom are Latino and barred by state law from applying for driver’s licenses.
NOT TO MENTION WHEN YOU ARE TAKING YOU KIDS ON VACATION AND THEY ALL ASK
“WHAT IS THIS DADDY?
WHY ARE THE POLICE STOPPING ALL OF US?
THIS SCARES US,
WILL WE BE OK?
YES, FUCK YOU MAHER AND YOUR NAZI BULLSHIT!
Police said drivers were making unsafe turns to avoid the checkpoint after they saw the protesters.
One driver suddenly veered TURNED into a driveway after passing the protesters’ signs, said Lt. Tom Albergo, who heads the department’s traffic division.
Another driver who made an illegal U-turn also was arrested for driving under the influence, Albergo said.
I wonder if everyone that tried to excerise their rights were arrested for one thing or another.
Vere are yoor Vucking Papers Bitch! Do not defy us! We will give you the hose!
In the area between the protesters and the checkpoint location, eight other drivers were cited Saturday night on a variety of violations, including illegal tinted windows, no license plate lights, turning violations and driving on a suspended driver’s license, Albergo said.
Leidendecker sent an e-mail to Maher on Monday asking the department to remove a news release on its website that implied the protesters were to blame for the reckless drivers.
“Protesters waved signs at motorists and attempted to divert them from the checkpoint ahead,” the news release said.
Maher said he would not remove the news release.
“Sorry, but the info was accurate, and our job is to make the streets safer for everyone, not worry about a politically correct response or staying on the sidelines,” Maher wrote in an e-mail reply to Leidendecker. “Drunk drivers kill people, and those who try to help them avoid arrest are putting all of us in danger.”
Leiendecker blamed police for the reckless drivers.
“They were parked along the streets, parked in the middle of the road with their lights flashing and sitting on the side streets intimidating drivers who may have wanted to turn,” she said. “Escape routes are supposed to be readily available for drivers.”
Under state regulations, police are required to give drivers “an escape route,” or a way to turn away from the checkpoint, said Chris Cochran, a spokesman for the state’s Office of Traffic Safety. However, officers can stop drivers suspected of some violation or who make illegal turns in an attempt to avoid the checkpoint, he said.
During the six-hour checkpoint, 1,450 vehicles were screened, police said. Forty-seven vehicles were sent to secondary inspections, including those belonging to drivers who could not produce a driver’s license or who were suspected of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Five people were arrested for DUI, including the two drivers who tried to avoid the checkpoint. One other person was cited for possession of marijuana.
Police impounded 15 vehicles; 12 because the drivers were unlicensed.
Leidendecker says the checkpoints are being used primarily as a way to generate revenue for the city and the towing companies. She says the city is illegally profiting from the checkpoints through processing fees that drivers pay to recover their vehicles and $100,000-a-year contracts the city has with four local towing companies.
Cochran said there is no evidence the city has done anything wrong.
The department receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants each year from the federal government through the state Office of Traffic Safety to fund its sobriety checkpoint program. On Monday, the department announced it received another $268,000 grant from the Office of Traffic Safety for its efforts.