From: LewRockwell
“See – this is what happens when you don’t cooperate with the
police!” snarled Neil Uhrig as he pinned Melissa Miller to the floor of
her home. It’s not clear whether Officer Uhrig was expressing
satisfaction at the expense of the traumatized woman, or trying to tutor
her screaming nine-year-old daughter, Julliet, who had watched in
horror as Uhrig
assaulted her mother, threw her against a couch, and then handcuffed
her while thrusting a knee into the middle of her back.
It was nearly midnight when Uhrig and another officer arrived at the
home Melissa shared with her boyfriend and their blended family. Julliet
and a friend had noticed the police approaching the house, and they
went to wake up Melissa. Still groggy from sleep, Melissa opened the
door a crack, only to be startled fully awake when Uhrig – unbidden and
without legal justification of any kind – shoved his foot inside the
home and announced, “I’m going to search your house.”
“No, you are not,” Melissa replied, giving Uhrig a lawful order he
was required to obey. Rather than doing so, he shoved the door open and
committed felonious aggravated battery by seizing Melissa’s arm,
twisting it behind her back, and throwing her to the ground. As he did
so, Uhrig performed the familiar ritual of reciting the shared refrain
of police and rapists: “Stop resisting!”
Although she was morally and legally entitled to resist the home
invasion – through the use of lethal force, if necessary – Melissa had
neither the means nor the opportunity to do so.
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