Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 2, 2011

Karen LeVert-Woitalla was baking cookies for her grandchildren when the police showed up. A few minutes later she was beaten and bloody, handcuffed and on her way to jail, where she would spend the next three days.

LeVert-Woitalla?s problems began when her daughter got into an argument with her boyfriend outside the house. A neighbor who overheard the argument called the police. Two Carver County deputies showed up and demanded to search the home. LaVert-Woitalla, who had a batch of cookies in the oven and was distracted by telephone calls, tried to accommodate the officers but eventually told them to leave.

Angered that the grandmother wasn?t properly submissive, the deputies assaulted her and abducted her at gunpoint, filing spurious charges of ?obstruction? and ?disorderly conduct.? The charges were dismissed when a judge ruled that the deputies had no legal authority to be in the home.

?I?ve always taught my children to respect police and go to them [for] help,? LaVert-Woitalla points out. ?I would never tell my granddaughter that now.?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.