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Title: Retired Army General Says He’s ‘Ashamed To Be An American’ After Brutal Arrest by Police
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Counter Current News/WSB-TV
URL Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/ ... hes-ashamed-to-be-an-american/
Published: Aug 21, 2015
Author: Counter Current News
Post Date: 2015-08-21 13:30:59 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 4238
Comments: 34
Officers from the Fayetteville, Georgia police department brutally arrested a retired four-star Army general, and now he says he’s ashamed to be an American” because of how out-of-control the police have gotten. William J. Livsey, 84, along with his neighbors, have accused police of severe violent acts during an alleged dispute with a food delivery driver. “It’s the first time in my life I’m ashamed to be an American,” Livsey said to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Raw Story notes a report from the Journal-Constitution, which “noted that a portion of Highway 314 in town was renamed the ‘General Bill Livsey Highway’ in Livsey’s honor.” They add that “he retired from duty in 1987, following a career that saw him win the Distinguished Flying Cross, Silver Star and Distinguished Service Medal, among other honors.” “They took me away without my shoes, glasses or medicine. I fought for this country so hard, and I’ve tried to do good all my life,” Livsey recounted. This all started when a delivery driver said his debit card was not accepted. Livsey offered a check, but the driver refused. What happened next is for a court to sort out. The drive says that the 84-year-old man “grabbed him by the throat and pinned him” against his refrigerator. But the physical state of Livsey makes that somewhat difficult to imagine, as you will see in the video at the bottom of this article. Police believed the driver though, and they decided the elderly man needed some police-administered “street justice.” The former commander of US forces in South Korea was swarmed by ten officers, who claim he “resisted” and eventually tried to “punch one of the officers and kick another one all while making threatening and disparaging remarks.” But neighbors who witnessed this incident say it was “just blown out of proportion,” by the police, according to a neighbor who spoke with local WSB-TV. “Way too many police for that. Way too many. And the way they handcuffed him was ridiculous.” Watch the local WSB’s report in the video below… 
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#3. To: Deckard (#0)
A debit card IS your checking account. If the card is rejected it means there's no money there. So expecting someone to accept a written check is ridiculous.
I cannot believe it hasn't occurred to you that the debit card and checking account might be of two different accounts. But that won't stop you from defending the police no matter what wrong they do, or might have done.
Right. And those hoofbeats could be zebras, not horses.
Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. But in your case, I suppose it doesn't matter.
It means you go with the explanation that's most likely.
In that case, it's most likely a retired 4-star general has more than 1 bank account.
You mean two separate checking accounts? Then why not a debit card for each? "Oh, that debit card is not going through? Here, use this debit card instead."
Given the lack of coherency and logic in your arguments, the police should be happy you are not working for them trying to convince a jury about this general.
#32. To: Pinguinite, A K A Stone (#31)
That doesn't matter anymore the police will charge the guy with so many things his lawyer will "counsel him" to take a plea bargain for a reduced sentence. Nowadays if you've been arrested you've got to be guilty, no ifs ands buts or maybes...
It wouldn't take much to "convince" the jury the fine, upstanding general is guilty of theft, assault, and resisting arrest. And I wouldn't even mention the fine, upstanding general's checking account. Or two accounts.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"This all started when a delivery driver said his debit card was not accepted. Livsey offered a check, but the driver refused."
#8. To: misterwhite (#3)
A debit card IS your checking account. If the card is rejected it means there's no money there. So expecting someone to accept a written check is ridiculous.
#15. To: Pinguinite (#8)
"I cannot believe it hasn't occurred to you that the debit card and checking account might be of two different accounts."
#26. To: misterwhite (#15)
Right. And those hoofbeats could be zebras, not horses.
#27. To: Pinguinite (#26)
"Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean."
#28. To: misterwhite (#27)
#30. To: Pinguinite (#28)
"In that case, it's most likely a retired 4-star general has more than 1 bank account."
#31. To: misterwhite (#30)
Replies to Comment # 31. Given the lack of coherency and logic in your arguments, the police should be happy you are not working for them trying to convince a jury about this general.
#33. To: Pinguinite (#31)
"the police should be happy you are not working for them trying to convince a jury about this general."
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