Alan West supports the "thin blue line" until they arrest his drunk wife

[Demovictory9]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/allen-west-s-wife-released-after-being-arrested-for-dwi-with-grandkid-in-car/ar-AANBgzI?ocid=msedgntp

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West's wife was stopped by a Dallas officer assigned with the DWI Squad for a traffic violation before 8:45 p.m. Friday night, which led to the officer to suspect West was intoxicated and performed a field sobriety test on her. After the field test, West was taken into custody and charged with "Driving While Intoxicated with a Child under 15 Years Old," the Dallas Police Department told Fox News.

West's infant grandson, Jackson, was released to a family member after his grandmother's arrest.

The arrest drew strong rebuke from West, the former chairman of the Texas Republican Party, who called the arrest "insidious" in a video he posted on Twitter Saturday morning.

In the video, West said he spoke to people who were with his wife at PF Chang's earlier that night and claimed they told him she was only drinking "water and lemonade." He also blasted the Dallas Police Department for not letting him see his wife or talk to a supervisor about the arrest.

"The thing that upsets me the most is that they [Dallas police] took my wife, arrested her, brought her to jail and left my grandson with two Dallas police officers," West said in the Twitter video. "Luckily, they were able to get in contact with our youngest daughter, Austin, who was able to go and pick up Jackson [West’s grandson] from two police officers on the side of the road… I support the thin blue line but this is insidious."

[BlueLucy]

1. Drunk or drugged? nt

[Mysterian]

2. Typical republican scumbag

"The rules apply to everyone except me."

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

10. Exactly.

When the results come out showing she was intoxicated, think he'll admit what she did was completely wrong?

Of course not, he'll blame anyone and everyone else but her (more of that Republican "personal responsibility" bull shit).

The hell with this asshole.

[Jim__]

3. I support the thin blue line but IOKIYAR.

[underpants]

4. He wasn't with her? I'd read other accounts in which he stated that she hadn't been drinking

This says that he contacted the staff and they said she hadn’t ordered any alcohol. That doesn’t mean she wasn’t drinking of course.

[Mysterian]

5. Maybe she's chugging pints in private

to deal with her asshole husband.

[cojoel]

12. He was apparently dining with Ted Nugent

I wouldn't want to eat a meal with either of them.

[patphil]

6. Another case of: it's only wrong when it affects me.

I notice the disclaimer: "I support the thin blue line, but this is insidious".
Probably wouldn't have been insidious if it was someone he didn't know, or who was of a different race, religion, or ethnicity.

[Marcuse]

7. I'm not sure insidious means what he thinks it means.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Republicans: 'Back the blue' becomes 'Backstab the Blue.'

Republicans: 'Back the blue' becomes 'Backstab the Blue.'

"Kill him with his own gun."

[brush]

9. More likely it was DWB. Cops don't know if the Black person is republican.

No blood test results have been released so saying she was drunk is premature.

[Maraya1969]

11. It doesn't say if they gave her a nebulizer or blood test. I hope they did because

you can't really make that judgement that someone is under the influence unless you have definitive medical evidence.

[cojoel]

13. she was tested

There was a field sobriety test. When the time came, she refused a blood test (which is a "no-no" in the world of DUI/DWI handling). So a warrant was requested and granted, and a blood draw was obtained. The article below did not indicate the results of that test.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/21/texas-candidate-allen-west-police/

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Allen West is quanon conspiracy nutcase and so this will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

[UTUSN]

15. Hah!