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Woman Faces Fine For Feeding The Hungry

August 17, 2012 by Bryan Nash

SCREENSHOT

Angela Prattis will have to pay $1,000 to continue feeding hungry children in her neighborhood.

A woman in Philadelphia is facing a fine for feeding hungry children.

Angela Prattis was threatened with a $600 fine for every day she handed out free food.

The local government has tried to get citizens to quit feeding the hungry, hoping that doing so will force the poor into shelters.

Prattis distributes meals every day from the gazebo in her yard. She believes the government has more important things to worry about.

“You have houses here, the roofs are falling in, and they could be focused on a lot of more serious issues than me feeding children,” Prattis said.

“How is feeding kids a bad thing?” she asked. “I’m doing this from my heart because I love children. And these kids are hungry. Last Friday, I had 20 children walk to my house in the pouring rain for lunch, and at 2 p.m., they came back for a snack. Tell me this program is not needed.”
But Township Council Chairman Stanley Kester says that rules have to be followed.

“She wants us to bypass or exonerate her from the zoning hearing. She just doesn’t want to pay to do things the right way. We can’t just start exempting everyone from our laws. If you do one, you’ve got to do everybody,” Kester said.

Prattis will have to pay $1,000 to continue her program.

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Attorney for Fullerton Cop Manuel Ramos: Kelly Thomas Was Responsible for His Own Death

Mike Riggs|Aug. 22, 2012 11:31 am

The attorney for former Fullerton Police Department officer Manuel Ramos attempted to have his client's charges dismissed yesterday by arguing that Kelly Thomas, the homeless man Ramos helped beat to death, was asking for it:

Seeking to have charges dismissed against a Fullerton police officer in the death of a mentally ill homeless man, his attorney contends in a motion filed Tuesday that Kelly Thomas could "have avoided a physical altercation" by simply complying with the commands of the officer who wanted to take him into custody.

Defense attorney John Barnett in his filing just days before his client Manuel Ramos is due back in court argues Ramos' action did not cause Thomas' death.

When a "recalcitrant" Thomas did not comply, Ramos was entitled to use force and the threat of force to complete his arrest, Barnett contended in his 80-page motion.

"Rather than use actual force, Officer Ramos employed a lawful, conditional threat, to use force," he wrote. "The death of Kelly Thomas was not the natural and probable consequence of that lawful threat."

"What happened (during the encounter) did not and could not constitute a crime," Barnett said.

That "Lawful, conditional threat"?

[District Attorney] Rackauckas said Ramos triggered the sequence of events that led to the fatal fight when he snapped on latex gloves, turned to a sitting Thomas and threatened, "You see these fists? ... They are getting ready to f--- you up."

The Orange County Register has more on Barnett's attempt to have the charges against Ramos dismissed. His whitewash is almost as infuriating as that of Jay Cicinelli's stepfather, a retired cop who claims that what happened to Thomas "wasn't a beating; it was a struggle."

The video from that night contradicts both men's claims.



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'Mind' of a 'Normal' Statist Sociopath; Ramos's Lawyer: Kelly Thomas @ fault for his OWN Death!

Submitted by AnCapMercenary on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 16:56
Peace / War
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Just when you thought you've heard it all from lunatic statists, then comes this:

Attorney for Fullerton Cop Manuel Ramos: Kelly Thomas Was Responsible for His Own Death

Mike Riggs|Aug. 22, 2012 11:31 am

The attorney for former Fullerton Police Department officer Manuel Ramos attempted to have his client's charges dismissed yesterday by arguing that Kelly Thomas, the homeless man Ramos helped beat to death, was asking for it:

Seeking to have charges dismissed against a Fullerton police officer in the death of a mentally ill homeless man, his attorney contends in a motion filed Tuesday that Kelly Thomas could "have avoided a physical altercation" by simply complying with the commands of the officer who wanted to take him into custody.

Defense attorney John Barnett in his filing just days before his client Manuel Ramos is due back in court argues Ramos' action did not cause Thomas' death.

When a "recalcitrant" Thomas did not comply, Ramos was entitled to use force and the threat of force to complete his arrest, Barnett contended in his 80-page motion.

"Rather than use actual force, Officer Ramos employed a lawful, conditional threat, to use force," he wrote. "The death of Kelly Thomas was not the natural and probable consequence of that lawful threat."

"What happened (during the encounter) did not and could not constitute a crime," Barnett said.
That "Lawful, conditional threat"?

Sure, Kelly's magic fist pummeled his own face and choked his own throat to death.

Hm... here I thought, even to these degenerate statist sickos, the notion that a woman who dresses alluringly is NOT 'asking to be raped,' was a long foregone 'legal' conclusion.

No??

Yes! Govt 'values' your life! Um... except when it doesn't... like EVERY SINGLE TIME??

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