September 16th, 2005 @ 6:37 pm
Sausage lands grandmother in jail
CNN.com - Family: Sausage lands grandmother in jail - Sep 16, 2005
Defense attorney Daniel Becnel, family members and witnesses said police snared Maten in the parking lot of a hotel after floodwaters swamped her New Orleans home. She had paid for her room with a credit card and followed authorities’ instructions to pack extra food, they said.
She was retrieving a piece of sausage from the cooler in her car and planned to grill it so she and her husband, Alfred, could eat, according to her defenders. The parking lot was almost a block from the looted store, they said.
“That woman was never, never in that store,” said Naisha Williams, 23, a New Orleans bank security guard who said she witnessed the episode. “If they want to take it to court, I’m willing to get on the stand and tell them the police is wrong. She is totally innocent.”
but, police insist that she was arrested in the checkout area of the store. She is a 73 year old, diabetic grandmother who is a deaconess at the Resurrection Mission Baptist Church and won an award for her decades of service at a hospital.
but… she sure is “easier to catch” than having to run after young hoodlums
plus, she is “So black”
