A mother was arrested in Meridian, Idaho, for letting her children play in the park during a planned act of civil disobedience. The park was declared off bounds by the governor. There were many other people in the group but she was the lucky one police chose. The officers handcuffed her in front of her children. She was taken to the station.
They’re making a criminal out of a mom with her two young children.
Sara Brady is an advocate of a movement urging Idahoans to disobey the governor’s stay at home order.
Forty-year-old Sarah Brady was arrested at Kleiner Park in Meridian Tuesday afternoon.
Brady and others gathered at the playground were asked several times to leave. After telling the officer to arrest her, she turned her back to him while putting her hands behind her.
“Do it,” she said.
Wow Mother arrested in Meridian, Idaho for letting kids play in park..
This shit is going too far! This isn’t communist China!
— TheSpeaker2018 (@TheSpeaker2018) April 22, 2020
The police said she violated city orders to stay out of parks, but are the orders reasonable?
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This is similar to what Barack Obama did when he forced the closing of government in that it seems like an overreach. Obama shut down all the open-air museums like the WWII memorial even though they didn’t require guards. He even ordered the closure of cutouts in the roads that allowed people to pull over and look at the scenic parks closed to them at the time.
If people stay 6 feet apart, should they be allowed in the taxpayer-funded park?
She faces the charge of trespassing on a closed playground. She also violated the governor’s order. Each charge carries a 1,000 fine and six months in jail which is absurd.
Her arrest appears to be the first in a state that’s been hesitant to enforce the order over the past month, though at least one citation was issued last week.
On Friday, Rathdrum Police in north Idaho issued the misdemeanor citation to Christa Thompson after she and her husband continued to hold a yard sale after being warned multiple times over several days that it violated the governor’s order.
An attorney for Thompson disputes that, saying she was initially told by Rathdrum Police that a yard sale was allowed.
Also in Idaho, some non-essential businesses have begun to open.
Middleton Fitness opened. Slick’s Bar in Nampa also plans to reopen Saturday, saying “we truly do not care if you disagree” with the decision in a Facebook post.
Idaho has or had 1766 cases and 51 deaths as of today.
we live in a police state.
Public office in this gals future?
How do we know that those police are not passing on COVID-19. They sure are not wearing masks or gloves as they talk to all those parents, and as they put handcuffs of Ms. Brady. Oh, and what happened to her children? Were they turned over to social services? And why weren’t all the adults present not given tickets? This is totally overreaching and over-reacting. Guess we’re headed for a police state at the insistence of the Democrats.
This heavy-handed behavior on innocent civilians is not garnering the police any fans, esp. when actual criminals are being released into society en masse.
@ Greg,
The local school continues to pass out free stuff for people who think that the US taxpayer is responsible for the care and upbringing of their children.
They only have masks and gloves on for now but no HAZMAT suits or loud speakers blaring admonitions about social distancing.
Peace and safety is mandatory as part of the Great Leap Forward improvementation.
The point was Only about the weather. As for “delivering” school lunches, or even during summer, has always perplexed me considering there are programs by the FDA for just that purpose. Even more suspicious was school “breakfasts”. You can make a Lot of pancakes for little or nothing, or even cooking some oatmeal is cheap. How many of those needy have “smartphones”. Is THAT a necessity. It certainly isn’t for me.
https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Wichita-Public-Schools-postpones-meal-distribution-due-to-lightning-569854741.html
They can’t deliver meals because of “lightning”. What’s next, if the wind blows. Has the virus created MORE danger from lightning. Panic has Become a contagious disease.