Dateline Panguitch, Utah - - - Woman is arrested for smirking at Panguitch Cop! According to an unnamed Garfield County Deputy Sheriff, ""I observed one of the friends … stomping on a 'Back the Blue' sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumple it up in a destructive manner and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me," the deputy wrote in the affidavit. This is from a KLSNews report. But wait there's more. There's always more. First off, the Deputy Sheriff had pulled over the woman's friend and offered the woman's friend a 'speeding ticket'. You really do NOT want to get caught speeding in Panguitch. Panguitch is in Garfield County Utah. Panguitch straddles US-89 and US-89 takes you past the cutoff to Bryce Canyon National Park. That's the Panguitch claim to fame. Well and their less than brave deputy sheriffs. "She smirked at me." Here are the facts ma'am nothing but the facts - a 19-year-old woman was charged Friday with a hate crime accusing her of stomping on a pro-police sign and throwing it in the trash — all in front of an officer who had just given her friend a speeding ticket. And there's that "smirking" enhancement and that falls under the legal category of a Utah 'hate crime'. Bet you did not know that smirking was a hate crime enhancement. Well it is in Utah. More nuggets of reporting it as it actually happened, "the woman is charged in Garfield County's 6th District Court with criminal mischief. The charge was filed with a hate crime enhancement, making it a class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. The woman was also charged with disorderly conduct, an infraction. In Panguitch, disorderly conduct is an "infraction" but smirking is a class A misdemeanor offense and can get you up to a year in the Garfield County slammer. Here are more electrifying details from Garfield County Deputy Sheriff Parley Spriggs. I had to make up a name for the deputy as the 'official reporting' does not give the deputy's name. Back to our narrative - "I stated to (the woman) that our sheriff's office produced those specific signs and that I believed she had acquired it in our community," the deputy wrote, adding that he checked with gas station employees who said the sign was not theirs. After reading her her Miranda rights, the deputy said the woman provided "inconsistent stories" and eventually said she had found it on the ground.
"Due to (the woman) destroying property that did not belong to her, in a manner to attempt to intimidate law enforcement, I placed her under arrest," the deputy wrote, adding that she was taken and booked into jail. "Due to the demeanor displayed by (the woman) in attempts to intimidate law enforcement while destroying a pro law enforcement sign, the allegations are being treated as a hate crime enhanced allegation." I mean really, is there anyone in these here United States of Buffoonery that doesn't get 'demeanored' by getting a speeding ticket? More details - according to the charging documents, the criminal mischief charge with a hate crime enhancement was filed because the woman damaged or destroyed the sign "with the intent to intimidate or terrorize another person or with reason to believe that her action would intimidate or terrorize that person."
The Utah hate crime statute for civil rights violations referred to in the charging documents says: "'Intimidate or terrorize' means an act which causes the person to fear for his physical safety or damages the property of that person or another. The act must be accompanied with the intent to cause or has the effect of causing a person to reasonably fear to freely exercise or enjoy any right secured by the Constitution or laws of the state or by the Constitution or laws of the United States." So Deputy Spriggs felt "terrorized" by the girl's smirking at him in an 'intimidating manner'. Whatever. So there you go people, there's high crimes and misdemeanor smirking happening right now in Panguitch, Utah and their law enforcement personnel are NOT going to take it anymore. No how and no way. The young woman is lucky she wasn't shot and killed by the Garfield County Deputy Sheriff Spriggs. By the by, had the young woman been of the 'black persuasion' well she'd have been shot dead on sight. For smirking. Yes my friends, down in Panguitch law enforcement is more than a bit edgy and intolerant. Smirking can get you killed and/or incarcerated for at least a year. Yikes that's some tough ass law enforcement no doubt. Smirking...😏 That's an official smirking emoji. Go figure. Now it's time for machine art and let's keep the smirking to a minimum thank you.
see what the tide washed in -
windy -
that wind will blow the smirk right off'n your face.
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