Cleveland man wears 'idiot' sign for threatening police

[n2doc]

Michael Winter, USA TODAY

A Cleveland man admits he was an "idiot" for calling 911 and threatening to kill police, and he has the court-ordered sign to prove it.

Richard Dameron, 58, is standing outside a police station for three hours a day this week displaying his handmade mea culpa as punishment for his conviction.

"I apologize for everything I've done, you know. I do feel bad about it 'cause the man has never done nothing to me," Dameron told WKYC-TV on Monday as he stood outside the 2nd District police station on the first day of his public shaming.

"I was under the influence of alcohol," he explained. "We were very deeply into it and we just started rambling off, acting like fools with a couple of officers."

Dameron's sign apologizes to a particular officer and "all police officers" for "being an idiot," and he pledges "it will never happen again."

more

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/03/cleveland-man-idiot-sign-threatened-police/2759953/

[Logical]

1. I am shocked this guy didn't receive years in jail. n-t

[Ian David]

2. "Here's your sign." n/t

[Trillo]

3. Why can't we get convicted Banksters to have a similar punishment?

I can see the court-ordered sign right now:

"I ripped off homeowners and working folks"

The court should also demand that MSM carry it on all the channels, every 30 minutes for several days, saturation media, like how they do for petty criminals.

It would be a great compliment to fines and jail time.

[cui bono]

6. It could be printed on everyones's checks! Like yours and mine.

Except I'm with a credit union, but you get the idea.

Let's roll with it.

[Trillo]

8. You're welcome to your opinion.

I was thinking of a sub-discussion on a different DU thread where below that link a longtime DUer complained that nobody knew there were allegedly 3000 bankster court cases ("sue&quot since 2009 or something like that. If that statement on the other thread was true, MSM seems afraid to cover this in any fair manner, presumably because MSM is probably owned by the bankers.

Not an equal perception of the application of law by any means.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Awesome. When are we going to bring back branding and the pillory?

[Skittles]

5. I do not agree with public humiliation as punishment

sorry, there has to be better ways than this to get a point across

[cui bono]

7. I don't either. It felt really wrong to read that. n/t