Monday - April 25, 2005

Peaceniks Punch Protesting (ex) Policewoman

You never can tell what the Peace-Loving Left ^tm will do at a peace protest, can you?

It started out as a typical Wednesday for Preckshot, a 49-year-old who stands about 5-foot-2 and has hearing aids in both ears. She was standing on her normal spot on Providence Road, holding her signs in support of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. For nearly four years now, this has been Preckshot’s life from about 4:15 to about 5:45 in the afternoon once a week.

Sounds like an upstanding woman to me.  Peacable, quiet, steadfast in her support fo the troops.

On this particular Wednesday - it was March 16 - her effort seemed to annoy a couple of the protesters. Not satisfied with their own peace protest, a pair of peaceniks grabbed their signs and made their way to Preckshot, who normally stands outside the Bloomers flower shop near Locust Street.

Annoyed peaceniks, who could ask for a more delightful group?  I bet they were coming over to congratulate her on her fortitude over the past four years.

“Two of the guys from the corner walked down with a big sign that read ‘End the occupation,’ “ she remembers. One of them started taking pictures of a Preckshot supporter across the street, she says. “At some point, the other guy starts coming toward me.”

For a diminutive woman, Preckshot can handle herself. She’s a former police officer, and she isn’t easily intimidated. Still, a young man coming at her waving a sign in her face seemed a little aggressive, particularly from somebody supposedly advocating peace.

The man stepped closer. She backed off a step. He shoved a sign in her face, and she backed off once again.

“Don’t touch me!” she told him.

Then, she says, he pushed her.

“He started taunting me and reached out and pushed on my shoulder,” Preckshot says. “Each time he pushed, it got a little harder. When I saw his hand come at me again, I grabbed it. I felt fearful.”

As Preckshot pushed the man’s hand away, “he slugged me right in the face,” she says.

Nope, the peacable peacenik was pushing and punching Preckshot the policewoman.  Of course, the other peacable peaceniks proceeded to pummel the pissant, right?

What does confound her, however, is why her weekly adversaries weren’t more helpful when police came to the scene.

After the incident, Preckshot went to a nearby gas station to call the police, and they quickly arrived to take statements.

None of the peace activists, however, would give up Allaire.

Typical.  Peace at any cost, especially if you can assault a woman wearing hearing aids and glasses simply holding a sign that offends your sensibilities.

That didn’t stop police from getting their man. A few days after the conflict, Preckshot and her husband, Geoff, were at the local military recruiting office on Broadway when the peaceniks marched by on their Palm Sunday protest. The Preckshots saw Allaire, holding the same “End the occupation” sign. Geoff snapped pictures of the alleged scofflaw while Allaire flipped his middle finger in his general direction. He called police, and they tracked Allaire down.

Good for them.  Now the cops can take his birkenstock-wearing self to the slammer.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/25/2005 at 12:50 PM   
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