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CurtEastPoint

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2. The lovely David G. Liebenguth

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Sat Aug 29, 2020, 07:37 AM

Aug 2020

The parking ticket case grew out of the issuance of a $15 citation by a New Canaan traffic officer, who is Black, to David G. Liebenguth of Greenwich, who is white, in the summer of 2014. Liebenguth, according to a variety of accounts outlined in court records, became enraged. He told the officer to “remember Ferguson,” a reference to the shooting of a Black man by police in Missouri. Liebenguth was accused of muttering slurs and clearly uttering a slur as he drove out of the lot.

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Is a using a racial slur free speech or a crime? CT Supreme Court reinstates conviction of man ... [View all] sl8 Aug 2020 OP

there is a price to be paid for words that come out of your mouth beachbumbob Aug 2020 #1

The lovely David G. Liebenguth CurtEastPoint Aug 2020 #2

Damn! Alacritous Crier Aug 2020 #4

I'm not sure about this. greymattermom Aug 2020 #3

If he had said that to a person who was not a cop, not a damn thing would have been done. nt GemDigger Aug 2020 #5