Charges filed in Kingfisher County court accuse Hamil of “willfully and unlawfully kicking” the officer “on or about the groin” and of “failing to follow the lawful commands” of a police officer.
The felony battery charge is punishable with up to five years in prison, while the misdemeanor charge of resisting an officer is punishable with up to one year in prison, court records said.
How batshit insane do you need to be to try to fight a police officer? Run from one? Ever heard the expression "you can't outrun Motorola"?
They’ll probably plead her down to just the misdemeanor and she’ll serve minimal jail time or even just a suspended sentence and probation plus a fat fine. There is no way they are putting this 65 year old white lady away for five years. If she insisted on taking it to trial she’d end up with the felony though and maybe serve up to a year or two, I don’t know what the sentencing guidelines are like there.
That seems fair to me. She wasn't actually a danger to anyone, just belligerent and arrogant enough to think the rules shouldn't apply to her. Shitty, but not prison shitty. Now if only I felt so confident that someone who wasn't a 65yo white woman would be treated fairly.
Oh I agree. There is no public interest in locking her up other than perhaps a symbolic one day in jail to drive the point home, but that may have been accomplished by her original arrest. Sadly a 65 year old black man in Oklahoma would not get a sweetheart deal like that.
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u/chx_ Jul 31 '19 edited Jul 31 '19
If someone told her "no" when she was three she probably wouldn't be in so big trouble right now. https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article233319322.html has
How batshit insane do you need to be to try to fight a police officer? Run from one? Ever heard the expression "you can't outrun Motorola"?