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D.C. Metro Police Escorted SEIU Protesters to Bank Of America Executive’s Home
Posted by Archy Cary May 21st 2010 at 11:11 am in Featured Story, Justice/Legal, Politics | Comments (398)
D.C. Metro Police Escorted SEIU Protesters to Bank Of America Executive’s Home - Big Journalism
The family of Greg Baer, Bank of America executive, is located in a jurisdiction protected by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), which responded promptly to a disturbance call from his neighborhood last weekend.

According to Corporal Dan Friz, an MCPD spokesperson in Rockville, Maryland, the department received a disturbance call from one of Baer’s neighbors at 4:10 pm last Sunday. Four MCPD units arrived at Baer’s Greenville Rd. address at 4:15 pm. At least two Metropolitan Police Department units from the nearby District of Columbia were already at the scene when they arrived.

Why? Because police cars attached to the Washington MPD’s Civil Disturbance Unit had escorted the SEIU protesters’ buses to Baer’s home. Such cross-jurisdictional escort activity is not uncommon for both departments according to Friz and Metro Police Department spokesperson Officer Eric Frost. Still, the District police did not inform their colleagues of what was about to happen in one of their Maryland neighborhoods.


The Maryland officers reported there were approximately 500 protesters on and near the front lawn of Baer’s house. Montgomery County was not given a “heads-up” concerning the planned protest. Although a protest permit is technically required in Montgomery County, in practice no citation is issued if the protestors disperse when requested to do so by the owner of the private property they occupy.

The primary role of the Washington cops in this event was to protect the protesters. The D.C. officers had no authority to act to disperse the protesters even had the homeowner been present and asked them to vacate the private property. The event ended as a “dash one”– no arrests, no citations – according to Friz. The Montgomery County units left the scene at 5:29 pm.

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According to Friz, “members of protest groups know how far to push the envelope” and wait for “the key words” – for example, the property owner’s request that they leave – in order to avoid arrests or citations. For example, protesters are required to keep on the move, since a standing protest violates a Montgomery County code. And, while photographs clearly suggest that many of the SEIU protesters were stationary, the District police don’t have any authority to enforce Montgomery County laws.

So, let’s sum this up: A caravan of SEIU buses receive a Metropolitan (D.C.) Police Department escort to a private home in Maryland where the protesters, from all appearances, violate Montgomery County law by engaging in a stationary protest. The Montgomery County police were not informed by their cross-jurisdictional colleagues of the impending, unusually large protest pending in their jurisdiction.

What’s up with that? Had the mob decided to torch the house, the D.C. police would not have been authorized to intervene. Not their jurisdiction. They’re just escorts. Meanwhile, a teenage boy is home alone, frightened by what’s happening outside his front door.

There’s something very wrong with this picture.

Here is my spin on this...

There is no end to what the people who got Obama elected will do to maintain power and influence. Remember it was SEIU that infiltrated the town hall meetings. It was union thugs who roughed up folks with opposing points of view.

I am glad this did not happen at my house. My wife (mama bear) would have turned the front yard into a mass grave with the SUV if someone did to our son what happened to this family. I do not agree with the big bank execs and the bailouts...BUT LEAVE THE KIDS OUT OF IT! This is a game for grown-ups.

[ricbak]

I saw this this afternoon on Fox News. Megyn Kelly was interviewing Erica Payne about this Attach on the BoA Lawyers House. I sure hope this VO of BoA Sues the pants off of SEIU. I can not believe that people find this acceptable.

Ms Kelly's Interview...
Did SEIU Protesters Cross the Line? - Video - FoxNews.com

[gogriz91]

What's SEIU got to complain about, they got their sweetheart health care deal from the annointed one? The taxpayers are carrying them, not BOA.

[CathyInBlue]

Thinking now about designing and marketting a line of tear gas and OC spray delivery systems integrated with a home's siding.

Home Owner: Get off my property!

Protestors: No!

HO: *pushes button*

Protestors: *cough* *choke* *gag*

[wolfhunter]

Thinking now about designing and marketting a line of tear gas and OC spray delivery systems integrated with a home's siding.

Home Owner: Get off my property!

Protestors: No!

HO: *pushes button*

Protestors: *cough* *choke* *gag*

ROFL!!! I like it, when you be ready to start shipping?

[mappow]

Nice Cathy, like a fogger or mister. Mount it up under the eave of the house and let go. Maybe add a 55 Gal in-line tank of habanero mixture to the sprinkler system on the front lawn also.
Putting Entrepreneurial ideas aside;
Trespassing on private property demands full police support. They have riot teams for just this sort of thing. BUT HOLD ON, this was a white "RICH" Banker in the nice part of town, not a shack in Watts. Again, inherent racism by our Gov't officials.

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." --author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

[GOV5]

Nice Cathy, like a fogger or mister. Mount it up under the eave of the house and let go. Maybe add a 55 Gal in-line tank of habanero mixture to the sprinkler system on the front lawn also.
Putting Entrepreneurial ideas aside;
Trespassing on private property demands full police support. They have riot teams for just this sort of thing. BUT HOLD ON, this was a white "RICH" Banker in the nice part of town, not a shack in Watts. Again, inherent racism by our Gov't officials.

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." --author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

They were trespassing. Why didn't a neighbor shoot them? LOL! OH yeah, I forgot. It's Maryland. Odds are in a "May issue" State, there isn't a homeowner with a gun or permit...especially during the day. Dad works! He isn't at home. Who did they think would be there other than kids. And why didn't the TV tell this bunch of thugs" we aren't going to cover it". They wouldn't have done this without prior arrangements with the local TV Station so the cameras could be there and ready to tape. I think the TV station should be named in the lawsuit as well.

[HK4U]

I am not normally a Pit Bull fan but in this case several to be turned loose might have been nice.

[CathyInBlue]

Pretty sure the turning loose into a yard filled with the modern equivalent of smelly hippies of an animal powerful enough to kill and maim a large number of them, and that animal subsequently doing so can only end one way. One dead animal filled with police lead. One home occupant brought up on manslaughter charges.