Yipes!!!!
That one interjection perfectly sums up a Greensboro police officer's mortified reaction to having pulled over a City Council member for driving 50 mph in a 35 mph zone.
Margaret Banks' story on the e-mail dialogue between the rookie officer and fellow police gives an instructive picture of the traffic stop that should have netted Councilwoman Dianne Bellamy-Small a speeding ticket.
No. 1: It showed the abject fear of an officer who was only doing his job but was terrified that he happened to stop a councilwoman.
No. 2: It suggests strongly that Bellamy-Small tried to rub her status as a council member in the officer's face.
Bellamy-Small contended in an e-mail of her own that "every aspect of my private life is not up for scrutiny unless it is somehow related to my public service."
With all due respect, who is she trying to fool?
Using her office not so subtly to intimidate the young officer is about related to her "public service" as any incident can be.
More on Bellamy-Small Sunday.
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Please explain to me why her bad behavior is re-elected each term. I don't get it.
Posted on February 18, 2007 1:05 AM
I am absolutely disgusted by the article i read on Bellamy Small, I can't decide on which i was more disgusted by,The spineless Police Officer M.J. Calverts reaction to learning who he had just pulled over(FOR SPEEDING) or the fact that Bellamy Small would even think that because she is a Councilwoman that she is above the law, If it were me or you we would not have gotten off that easy, It don't matter if the President himself was going down West Lee Street the speed limit is 35 not 50, It will only be fair to the residents of the city of Greensboro that this WOMAN that thinks she is above the law to receive a ticket for speeding, And further more if she don't want to be scrutinized by the Public then she should abide by the law like we all are expected to do, And then to blatantly lie to the officer that paced her while speeding as if to make him out to look like a liar! So to all the citizens of the City of Greensboro: If you are pulled over for speeding just ask the officer for one of his business card and threaten to call the Police Chief and complain about him, then maybe we can all beat a ticket for speeding. Dianne Bellamy Small is no more above the law then any of us and should be treated the same as all of us, And the reaction of the other police officer after learning who officer Calvert just pulled! Do we have grown Men as Police Officers in the city of Greensboro ? or just children scarred to issue a ticket to someone who has just broke the law, The story should have read "Law maker turned law breaker"-------WHO DOES THIS WOMAN THINK SHE IS ? To my Husband and i, she is just another person that thinks she is owed something!!!!!!!
Posted on February 20, 2007 11:37 AM