Police
Beat a Woman for Selling Flowers With No Permit - Taxpayers To Be Held Liable
(Video), by Matt Agorist, 11/15/18.
Perris,
CA — In the Land of the Free, if you do not pay the State before you attempt to
sell a product or service to a willing customer, you can and will be extorted,
kidnapped and caged, with extreme prejudice. A video published to Facebook
backs up this notion, showing a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department
deputy assault a woman who was selling flowers on
the side of the road — because she apparently failed to pay the State for the
privilege. Now, because the deputy’s actions were so egregious, the taxpayers
are going to be held liable.
The
victim, Joaquina Valencia, was selling flowers outside of a high school
graduation ceremony in Perris last year when the altercation began. Because she
was treated like a dog and savagely attacked, Valencia announced a lawsuit this
week against the department.
Valencia
says in the lawsuit that no human should ever be treated the way she
was. “He tossed me like a rag,” Valencia said in an interview with NBC Los
Angeles. The complaint
alleges Valencia was “unjustifiably beaten, shoved to the ground and arrested.”
The video does not tell the entire
story. However, it starts as the officer is grabbing a woman who is holding
multiple sets of flowers, clearly arranged for sale on the roadside. As the
video begins, the motorcycle officer is grabbing the woman by the arm. The
woman, who apparently doesn’t speak English, is clearly terrified.
Not wanting to be assaulted or
otherwise extorted by the deputy for selling flowers, the woman pulled her arm
back and tried to move away. She was still holding onto her flowers, indicating
that she was in no way a threat to the officer. However, as the woman attempted
to move backward, away from the officer, he grabbed her by her hair and
attacked her.
Within seconds, the officer had
tripped Valencia — who was still trying to protect her flowers as they likely
cost her much needed money — and was on top of her.
The video is appalling as the cop
kneels down on the woman and shoves his gloved hand over her mouth. The woman
begins yelling out in Spanish as another cop joins in on the arrest — all over
flowers.
As the officers roll her over to
place the handcuffs on her, we can see just how terrified Valencia is, as she
appears to have urinated on herself.
The department justified the arrest,
claiming that Valencia gave a fake name (Juanita Mendez-Medrano) when she was
detained. However, this had nothing to do with the original stop for selling
flowers. And, all charges were eventually dropped against Valencia.
Moreover, Valencia’s attorney
Ralph Rios argues that Joaquina Valencia is her true name and that she was just
nervous.
“A
lot of times when people do that, people get nervous and, she might have said a
different name, she might have said something,” Rios said.
Some
of the comments on the video are almost as disheartening as the video itself.
Multiple people attempted to justify this assault and battery by claiming the
woman should’ve had a permit.
Facebook
user Chuck N. wrote:
taxes, it;s called
getting a permit, pay taxes, oh and dont resist when officer gives you a
ticket. Is that person even in the country legally?
Another
FB user, Eady T, wrote:
Selling flowers without
a vendor’s license is a crime. Petty but crime non the less. So is resisting
arrest.
Sadly,
Americans are being conditioned to think that in the land of the free, people are somehow morally wrong if they try to
make a dollar without first being extorted by the state.
The
bottom line is — in modern day police state, USA — exchanging goods and
services is a crime unless the State gets their cut. We are told that this is
for our safety and that we could all die if a brown woman sells flowers on the
corner. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Morality does not
equal reality — and the video below is more than enough evidence to prove this.
Sadly,
this is one of many incidents in which people trying to earn a few bucks have
been attacked or otherwise kidnapped by police ‘protecting society.’
In
May of last year, the
Alameda County Sheriff’s department posted
a photo of a deputy arresting a man for selling fruits and vegetables on the
roadside and attempted to justify the arrest. When people read the department’s
justification, they lashed out — peacefully — to let them know what they were
doing is wrong.
The
following June, a 38-year-old
homeless man was attempting to earn some honest money by providing a much-desired service to
the residents of Kennewick, Washington when he was threatened with extortion
and arrest by the local police department, which effectively ended his
enterprise. After the Kennewick Police Department threatened the homeless man
and prevented him from making a living, they took to Facebook to shamelessly
brag about it.
Article
posted with permission from The Free
Thought Project.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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