January 27, 2005

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  Sticker stuck in cop’s craw

  
  

  By Brian D. Crecente, Rocky Mountain News
  January 25, 2005
  

  A Denver police sergeant is under investigation for allegedly threatening to arrest a woman Monday for displaying on her truck a derogatory bumper sticker about President Bush.

  
  

  “He told her that this was a warning and that the next time he saw her truck, she was going to be arrested if she didn’t remove the sticker,” said Alinna Figueroa, 25, assistant manager of The UPS Store where the confrontation took place.

  
  

  Police Sgt. Michael Karasek walked into the store and confronted Shasta Bates, the truck’s owner. “He said, ‘You need to take off those stickers because it’s profanity and it’s against the law to have profanity on your truck,’” Bates said. “Then he said, ‘If you ever show up here again, I’m going to make you take those stickers off and arrest you. Never come back into that area.’” .

  
  

  Karasek wrote down the woman’s license-plate number and then told her: “You take those bumper stickers off or I will come and find you and I will arrest you.”

  
  

   

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