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| Joshua Payne/Daily Dunklin Democrat [Order this photo] |
KENNETT, Mo. (AP) -- Jury selection began today in the trial of a 24-year-old accused of cutting in a store checkout line and not listening to police who tried to remove her from the property.
Heather Ellis is a black teacher facing charges of assaulting officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace in Dunklin County. Her supporters claim the charges are racially motivated.
A rally was held on her behalf Monday, and counter-protesters also were on hand -- some waving flags with the Confederate design or swastikas.
Ellis' troubles began in 2007 when the then-college student switched into a checkout line at a Walmart in Kennett. Police say Ellis became belligerent and fought with officers called to the store. She claims she was harassed by a customer, hassled by workers and mistreated by police.
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It doesnt matter if your white,black or striped. If you assault a police officer , resist arrest ,disturb the peace then you are WRONG!!!
i agree....she wants to pull the black card for attention! i guess she got it...wonder how she will feel if she really does get jail time for this offense instead of the plea deals she turned down...wonder how she will like all those gaurds attention!
I look for Obama to invite her and the police officer to the white house for a few drinks to work everything out.
The link below describes another fine educator. Come up with a new excuse this one is losing steam.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/prof_...
It doesnt matter if your white,black or striped. If you assault a police officer , resist arrest ,disturb the peace then you are WRONG!!!
-- Posted by runnergirl on Wed, Nov 18, 2009, at 2:24 PM
"IF" being the operative word. Runnergirl, you weren't there and you have no idea what happened.
An individual's rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one person can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.
As such, by jumping lines, shoving other patron's groceries back, yelling, kicking, and hitting she violated the individual rights of the people around her through the use of physical force. By acting so, she deprived them from pursuing their own goals, and she broke the law.
The responsibility of government is to protect an individual's rights. Our government does this by making laws. Only a government can make laws -- which are rules of social conduct backed up by physical force.
She threw the first punch, and when others confront her violation of their rights, she has the unmitigated gall to attempt a justification of her actions through accusatations of racial bias.
The answer is obvious.
She is not a Teacher! She was fired from her teaching job last year and has yet to find another job. I worked as a cook a few years ago, that doesn't make me a cook now.
Mickey D's or BK Lounge ?
I was not there to witness anything but i will say one thing, if what they say happened is true then this woman should not only do time for what she did but she should also have to make a public apology for being so stupid and playing the race card as much as she has. I guess we will see what happens to her and hopefully they resolve this case soon!
All the money taxpayers throw at the education bandwagon this is what we end up with, an educator assaulting a police officer while he is trying to do his job. She really sets an example before her students.
Wow, she needs to go on the TLC show "what not to wear".
My eyes still hurt.
I think if they find here gulty they should give her the MAX since she played the race card ! I wasn't there but if she jumped in frount of other custimers she ask for what she's getting! I can't stand RUDE people regardless of their race! Bet she wouldn't like it if it happend to her!!!!!
too bad they didn't taser her big butt...I would have...
That picture is of her mother.
The press and the NAACP are covering
up the truth here . They want to paint a
pic of a sweet preachers daughter who
has been treated bad by whites .
Look what I found on "sweet" Heather
Renae Ellis. Check out just ONE page of
her arrest record here !!
https://www.courts.mo.gov/cas...
This is NOT the first time she's been in
trouble for being violent , it is NOT the
first time she's resisted arrest in that
town .
She makes black people look bad , she
makes the NAACP look bad ( and they
don't need help with that )She gets in
trouble again and she plays the race card
and every black in the country runs to
her side . She has a history of this sort
of thing . So why is the press not
reporting that ??? Why is the press and
the NAACP helping a criminal start a
another race issue ???
You can read the police report here:
http://cnnac360.files.wordpre...
Notice how many people are listed as
"witness/victim"
What kills me is she started all this and
in looking for a way to save her own butt
she played the "race card" and caused it
to snowball into a race issue thats
spreading through the country.
Theresa_AA
Actually those are the charges she is currently on trial for aside from the traffic ticket. . .