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SouthBayDem

(31,961 posts)
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 12:15 AM Apr 2021

Affidavit: KS GOP leader calls officer 'donut boy,' says he'd 'take' him in a fight

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by JudyM (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Kansas City Star

Kansas Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop had a blood alcohol level over twice the legal limit after his arrest, according to court documents released Thursday that allege he refused a Breathalyzer test and told an officer he could “take” him in a fight.

Suellentrop faces a felony charge of fleeing and eluding law enforcement and multiple misdemeanors related to an alleged early morning wrong-way chase on Topeka highways last month. The Wichita Republican has been mostly silent about the allegations against him.

But court documents released to The Star and other outlets reveal new details, including allegations that Suellentrop failed to respond to an officer’s repeated commands to turn off his vehicle once he finally stopped. The documents say his blood alcohol level was 0.17. The legal limit is 0.08.

Read more: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article250524564.html



So much for "Blue Lives Matter"
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brewens

(13,396 posts)
1. 0.17 is pretty hammered. I'm a big guy. That would be pounding down at least ten beers
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 12:34 AM
Apr 2021

depending on how long I was at it.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. If you're 240lbs that's 10 beers in 40 minutes, approximately.
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 01:17 AM
Apr 2021

A person would probably have a lot easier time putting away 10 shots though

SunSeeker

(51,367 posts)
3. And the cops did nothing to him after he clipped a cop car going 90 mph wrong way on the highway!
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 02:37 AM
Apr 2021

I seriously doubt he would have survived to insult the officers during his arrest if he was a black man.

OldBaldy1701E

(4,968 posts)
8. Nor would that black man be charged with 'misdemeanors'. (n/t)
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 07:49 AM
Apr 2021
 

Manifest Desmond

(19 posts)
4. Correction:
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 04:19 AM
Apr 2021
BS GOP Leader
 

Tiger8

(432 posts)
5. And watch the Bigoted, Moronic Republican Voters....
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:24 AM
Apr 2021

.....re-elect this drunken, hateful bully.


And how do I know? Because if they voted to re-elect Trump.....the gold standard of corruption, bigotry, incompetency, and Fascism.....they’ll take anybody, so long as they hate the same people.

BumRushDaShow

(127,300 posts)
6. "Suellentrop failed to respond to an officer's repeated commands"
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 06:25 AM
Apr 2021

If he had been black, the funeral would have happened a month ago.

What was that thing that gets parroted over and over? Oh yeah - "Well if they had only complied..."

gab13by13

(20,864 posts)
7. Who wants to bet he gets off on lesser charges?
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 06:49 AM
Apr 2021

OldBaldy1701E

(4,968 posts)
9. Who wants to bet it basically amounts to nothing once the lawyer dance is done? (n/t)
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 07:50 AM
Apr 2021

bucolic_frolic

(42,669 posts)
10. When you're a star they let you do it
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 08:14 AM
Apr 2021

or get away with it. Almost like there's a hierarchy of the application of the laws, whereas there should be standards that are followed nationwide.

This example doesn't get floated anymore but it does seem standard procedures were not followed. It falls in the "no reasonable person would believe it's true" category.

https://www.sportscasting.com/nhl-goalie-ed-belfour-offered-police-a-billion-dollar-bribe-after-a-drunken-incident-in-a-dallas-hotel/

“Belfour began ‘begging’ officers not to take him to jail by offering them money,” the story continued. He ” first offered Dallas police officers $100,000, then $1 billion, if they would not jail him.”

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
11. Gee, if I didn't know better, I'd think white privilege was involved. n/t
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 09:57 AM
Apr 2021

RVN VET71

(2,686 posts)
12. I think the courts and the people of Kansas will see to it
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 11:01 AM
Apr 2021

that this fine servant of the community is vindicated and all charges are dropped lest his legacy be impaired by the rash actions of the police. Well, the police and the half a dozen people -- Democrats mostly -- who were going the wrong way on the highway when Leader Suellentrop, answering a frantic call from a constituent whose cat had fled up a tree, sped to assist her.

Arrested? Cuffed? Why? Because some cop looking for a promotion smashed into his SUV and splashed beer all over the inside of the good man’s car before dragging him from behind the wheel and arresting him?

Outrageous, I say! Obama was never treated like this and it is well known how he’d sneak out of the WH, six-pack in hand, and cavort along the beltway, stopping traffic by doing donuts, and flicking his middle finger at decency and the American way!

(I could go on. Do I need the “sarcasm” emoji here?)

JudyM

(29,122 posts)
13. Locking
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 11:32 AM
Apr 2021

Not high level important national news as required for the LBN forum. The forum hosts suggest you repost this, if you’d like, in GD or the KS group.

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