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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOnce upon a time, a President was arrested - for speeding horsing
Link to tweet
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According to Washington Post
The police officer who arrested a president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/history/2018/12/16/police-officer-who-arrested-president/?__twitter_impression=true
Amid President Trumps mounting legal problems, TV talking heads and bar-stool philosophers from Boise to Britain have been pondering one of the great mysteries of the U.S. Constitution.
Can the president of the United States actually be indicted? Arrested, handcuffed, the whole deal. Possible?
The prevailing answer is this: Nobody is sure.
But thats not entirely true.
President Ulysses S. Grant knows err, knew.
Even way back then, POTUS eluded Justice...
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Once upon a time, a President was arrested - for speeding horsing (Original Post)
laserhaas
Dec 2018
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eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)1. Abe Lincoln was grabbed and dragged away by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Yes, Lincoln was President but Holmes was "only" a Union Army officer at the time. Lincoln was visiting the front at Fort Stevens, and his tall figure was attracting the attention of Rebel sharpshooters -- bullets were passing close, but Lincoln seemed oblivious. So Holmes tackled him, shouting "Get down, you fool!". Lincoln remarked Im glad to see you {still?} know how to talk to a civilian.
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/washington/the-war-effort/war-effort-fort-stevens/
Sneederbunk
(14,275 posts)2. Grabbed? Dragged away? Tackled?
Holmes admonition has certainly been enhanced over time.
brooklynite
(94,302 posts)3. One can only imagine where the cop got reassigned...
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)4. Alaska
Yavin4
(35,420 posts)5. Technically, isn't the horse the one that's speeding? n/t
Lawyers thunk
Cars are the ones speeding.
Bullets kill because they go too fast.
He should have gotten outta the way of my fist during my Kata practice