Exclusive: All Charges Dropped Against FL Election Integrity Advocate Arrested Last November

[BradBlog]

Source: BRAD BLOG

Exclusive: All Charges Dropped Against FL Election Integrity Advocate Arrested Last November

Broward County, FL has dropped all charges against a local Election Integrity advocate whose arrest, described by an election official and other colleagues at the time as "outrageous", was captured on video tape late last year.

Ellen Brodsky, who had been a non-partisan candidate for Supervisor of Elections in last November's election, was arrested at the apparent behest of the office of the county's current Supervisor of Elections -- Brodsky's Democratic opponent in the race -- Dr. Brenda C. Snipes, while trying to view public, post-election counting and canvassing of ballots.

She was charged, at the time, with "disorderly conduct" and "trespassing", forced to spend the night in jail, and not released until nearly 6:00am the next morning, even though her son had posted the required $25 (twenty-five dollar) bail for her by 8:30pm on the evening of her arrest.

The "disorderly conduct" charges were dropped some time later, following the release of a video tape of the incident as posted by The BRAD BLOG in the days following the arrest. The tape, reposted again at the bottom of this article, revealed that Brodsky's conduct had been anything but disorderly when the county police were summoned by Fred Bellis, a deputy election official from Snipes' office, and Brodsky was thrown into handcuffs and hauled away...

FULL STORY, REPOST OF VIDEO OF ARREST: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6978

Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6978

[pleah]

1. K&R I wonder if she can sue them for false arrest?

After all, it is on tape.

[BradBlog]

2. See the full story...

...Details on that within...

[pleah]

3. Thanks.

:)

[BradBlog]

4. You're welcome :-)

[buckrogers1965]

5. Anyone still think elections are free and fair anymore?

They are arresting people who are peacefully just trying to observe what is supposed to be an open and public counting. What are they trying to hide?

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, BradBlog.

[pleah]

7. kick

:kick:

[Grinchie]

8. Wow, No Miranda Rights! Just Handcuffs

Let this sink in America. This is your Police State blooming into an authority unto itself.

Ask difficult questions, and any schlub with a self inflated sense of authority can have the enforcers come to take you away.

I question why two patrol units were needed for this incident, taking time away from other criminal investigations.

First Amendment rights Hah!



I remember what one cop said to me many years ago when I called out someone for telling lies. He said, there is no law against anyone telling a lie. Kinda sad isn't it.