Rev. Al Sharpton has taken to the internet to blast New York police after his ex-wife and oldest daughter were arrested in the city on Friday.
Kathy Jordan, 53 and daughter Dominique, 23, allegedly sped through a light on Eighth Ave. in Harlem on Friday, and were immediately pulled over by cops, who began writing the women tickets for the violation — but the girls allegedly got increasingly aggressive with the officers, who slapped the two with charges disorderly conduct and obstruction of governmental administration.
The incident has left Sharpton seething – and he has gone online to vent his anger at the way cops handled the situation.
In a series of posts on his Twitter.com page, he writes: “I cannot imagine how two unarmed women with no record could be taken in cuffs from a traffic dispute with NO personal or property damage involved. Well this is what we deal with every day. We will never accept unfairness. (There was) no drugs or drinking at all.”
Rachel Noerdlinger, a spokeswoman for Rev. Sharpton said Dominique, wants to show that there the younger generation can handle leadership.
“She asked her to Dad to let her handle it to show her maturity and to signal that she didn’t need him to intervene on her behalf. Almost like ‘I’m grown Dad, I got this.’”
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Rev. Al Sharpton was arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday as he joined hundreds of demonstrators in blocking traffic to protest the acquittal of three New York City Police detectives who fired 50 shots into a car of three unarmed men- resulting in the November 2006 murder of Sean Bell, 23. The father of two, who had just left his bachelor party at Queens, New York nightclub, was set to be married later that day. Shooting survivors Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman, and Bell’s fiancee, Nicole Paultre Bell were also arrested. They are being charged with “civil disobedience.” Read the rest of this entry »
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