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Des Moines, Iowa (AP) – M-and-M’s might be dangerous to your diet. But a college student is facing charges — for allegedly assaulting a police officer with M-and-M’s.
Authorities in Des Moines, Iowa, report arresting Sean McGuire at a convenience store after an M-and-M hit an officer on the shoulder. Police were questioning a friend of McGuire’s in a hit and run, when Drake University security guards noticed the colored candies falling around the officer. The police report says McGuire told officers he was sticking up for his friend. McGuire was released Sunday night on $1,000 bail.
Cripes!
Arrest
1000 dollar bail is unreasonable for throwing candy at a law enforcement officer when the arrested has no prior record of arrest.
Arrest was warranted as it was conflicting with the officer performing his duties. BUT the officer did not NEED to arrest him, a simple warning could have sufficed. There is no report here that the officer gave a warning and it went unheeded. So we cannot know for sure what happened. Bad reporting.
Also this was a college student, over 18, so no longer a child or a kid. He gets the adult treatment even if he continues to behave as a child.
#13
That video shows just how much of a ass the videographer was. All he had to do was say I’m American and she would have had him go on his way. No big deal. But he HAD to be like this kid in the story, some prick, and cause an incident.
This video was a guy with a camera being a jerk and having a huge ass ego that should have been fined for impeding a border security officials job.
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Think of all the M&M’s that kid could have bought with the $1,000. Silly rabbit.
It’s all related… many in our society have little to no respect for others.
We need a little of what Singapore provides:
> Like to paint graffiti ? = Public lashing
> Hang balls on truck? = License suspended
> Throw projectiles at police? = Return fire
> Steal STOP sign? = $10,000 fine
> Smoke pot on skull? = Public lashing
A bit severe, but today anything goes here. We need something in between.
Police state? Give me a fucking break!
The kid is a complete fuck up as are all of the people on here who think that this should be a non-issue.
Is a M&M going to hurt someone? Definetly not, but this shitheads actions show a complete disrespect towards law enforcement.
The cop should have knocked his fucking teeth out with a billy club.
From the very short story linked to, this seems ridiculous. I have a feeling, however, that the kid wasn’t arrested for the candy throwing. More like harassing the cops while their “conducting an investigation.” That can get you arrested. It’s a sorry state of journalism when a story such as this is covered by five sentence article.
If the arrest was just for getting hit with an M&M that’s retarded. Otherwise we don’t have enough information.
@#16 “Any hint of decent in the ranks” I think you mean dissent. That, and the rest of your argument makes pretty much no sense. Maybe you should get off the ganga before you try and activate the higher thinking capacities of your brain.
Ah, tax dollars hard at work! That cop must have been a real wimp. Wahhh, he hit me with an 1/2 ounce M & M. Wahhh.
#24
No..this kind of behavior by police (along with the tasering and all the other brutality demonstrated by the “small minority of bad apples” that shows up here)is WHY so many of us have “disrespect” for law enforcement.
This disrespect is nothing new either. Even the apologists for police “overreaction” admit that you want to tread carefully around them in a back alley if there are no witnesses present…whether you have done anything illegal or not….and that’s been true for at least the last 50 years to my knowledge. I learned that growing up..from people who did “respect” the police…in much the same way they respected an old testament kind of god…
Are you sure you don’t mean “live in fear of their just retribution” as opposed to “respect”? Or maybe they mean the same to you…
Another example of shoddy reporting. Google the punk’s name and you will find out that:
Officials said Sean McGuire, of Glenview, was arrested Sunday at a convenience store. He’s accused of throwing several M&Ms at a Des Moines police officer, who was in the process of investigating a hit-and-run crash.
McGuire said he threw the candy because he was “sticking up for his friend,” who was the man suspected in the hit-and-run accident.
If someone threw me M&Ms, I’d be grateful…