Woman arrested for making faces at dog

[Fox Mulder]

CHELSEA, Vt. - A prosecutor has dropped charges against a woman who was arrested for staring at and making faces at a police dog.

"Prosecuting a woman for `staring' at a police dog is absurd," said her lawyer. "People are allowed to make faces at police dogs and officers to express their disapproval. It's constitutional expression," said public defender Kelly Green, who represented Jayna Hutchinson.

Hutchinson, 33, of Lebanon, N.H., was charged with cruelty to a police animal and resisting arrest after a July 31 incident in West Fairlee in which police were called to a market to investigate a report of a brawl. They were approached by Hutchinson, who told one officer she had been assaulted the day before by one of the men involved.

She asked Vermont State Police Sgt. Todd Protzman to take her statement but he refused, telling her she smelled like alcohol and was drunk but that he would take her statement at another time.

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More here.

:wtf:

[xchrom]

1. ...

:wtf: :rofl:

[rug]

2. Criminal behavior.

[Deep13]

3. Police dog traumatized. Seeks therapy. nt

[crim son]

4. WTF is wrong with the police these days?

The fact that they have a tough job doesn't excuse this kind of garbage. :crazy:

[BarenakedLady]

5. I should apologize to my dog then

For calling him a fucking idiot. I don't want to go to jail.

[Connonym]

6. Unreal

I can't believe that it actually got that far. This reinforces my belief that cops are generally power hungry control freaks.