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The police officer who arrested a president (for all those arguing it absolutely CAN'T happen)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/16/police-officer-who-arrested-president/?utm_term=.4afa9dda83cd
The police officer who arrested a president
The Washington Evening Star in 1908 recounted the story of President Ulysses S. Grant's 1872 arrest.
Amid President Trump’s 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 that’s not entirely true.
President Ulysses S. Grant knows — err, knew.
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The man who led the North to victory in the Civil War was busted for speeding in his horse-drawn carriage.
The story of his arrest — confirmed a few years ago by Cathy L. Lanier, who was then the District’s police chief — was told in a remarkable but obviously forgotten story in the Sept. 27, 1908, edition of the Washington Evening Star under the headline: “Only Policeman Who Ever Arrested a President.”