Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 18, 2010

Atlanta resident Minnie Carey was peaceably assembled with three of her friends on a sidewalk outside a convenience store when a cop car pulled up beside them.

?Move it,? grunted police officer Brandy Dolson. Although her three friends complied, Carey asked why they were being ordered to vacate a public sidewalk. ?Because I said so,? Dolson declared.

?I?m a citizen and a taxpayer and I have a right to be here,? a puzzled Carey replied. Within seconds, she was ?cuffed and stuffed? in the patrol car. The 61-year-old Carey, a diabetic, was held for an hour and a half with her hands cuffed behind her back.

Merely for asking ?why,? Carey was cited for ?disorderly conduct,? a charge eventually dismissed after three court hearings.

Atlanta?s Civilian Police Review Board recently sustained Carey?s false arrest complaint. Officer Dolson, who has racked up 18 citizen complaints since 2001, faces no criminal or professional consequences for his assault on the 61-year-old woman. Such is life in the supposed land of the free.

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