at her own meeting...
During a meeting... A lone GOP elected official was seen being approached by two officials and arrested. It was her own meeting... she was criticizing the Dem Sheriff and this pisses a Dem elected members so they had her arrested.
An Ohio elected official’s constitutional rights were violated when her colleagues on a county board of commissioners had her arrested for criticizing the sheriff during a public meeting, a U.S. District Judge J. Philip Calabrese ruled Tuesday. Niki Frenchko, the lone Republican on the three-member Trumbull County Board of Commissioners, was placed in handcuffs by sheriff’s deputies at the commissioners’ meeting on July 7, 2022, and charged under an Ohio law that makes it a misdemeanor to “prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting.” The law prohibits obstructive conduct or speech that “outrages the sensibilities of the group.” The charge was later dropped.
“Here in America, we do not arrest our political opponents (Tell that to the Dems in DC). This case tests that longstanding norm as well as our Constitution’s robust protections for free speech that allow us to criticize our representative s and public officials.” The judge wrote.
Calabrese ruled that the sheriff (Paul Monroe), two deputies, and both county commissioners (Mauro Cantalamessa & Frank Fuda - retired and left the board) named in the suit are personally liable for damages. A hearing for damages will be held later (I can see lots $$$).
When Frenchko started criticizing the sheriff after an inmate died at the county jail. Mr. Fuda shot back, “You are talking about the chief law enforcement officer in Trumbull County; it’s unacceptable. You got a choice, you wanna apologize to the Sheriff, fine; if you don’t, we’re going to move on.” After Frenchko refused to move on, Mr. Fuda told a sergeant to go and arrest her... which he did.
Her attorney, David John Betras, a former Democratic Party chairman... “This has nothing to do with politics. We can’t arrest each other because you disagree with them politically. Once you start down that slope, it’s bad news for all of us. Who arrests someone for disturbing their own meeting?” AP
Since 2010, at least seven lawsuits have been filed alleging that the rights of inmates at the Trumbull County Jail had been violated - the same jail that Ms. Frenchko is questioning the Sheriff about.
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