Three Black Teens Arrested for Waiting for a Bus
Charged with disorderly conduct for not dispersing
Rochester, N.Y. -- Three Edison students who were charged with disorderly conduct pleaded not guilty in court.
The boys were with about a dozen basketball teammates Wednesday morning on Main Street waiting for a school bus to take them to a scrimmage at Aquinas. There was no school that day and their coach had arranged for a pick-up at a central meeting spot.
An officer asked the boys to disperse and they refused. The young men say they tried to explain to him they were waiting for a school bus. The officer arrested three of the players.
"We didn't do nothing," said Raliek Redd. "We was just trying to go to our scrimmage."
"We was just waiting for our bus and he started arrested us," said Wan'Tauhjs Weathers.
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Kevin R
"Disorderly conduct". That's the same thing that the reds used to call "hooliganism", right? In other words, failure to immediately display obsequious submission to a uniformed thug on demand.
-jcr
That sounds about right.
When "reasonable suspicion" can be invented on the fly, it doesn't exist anymore.