Arrested by the Philadelphia Police for Open Carry

[gbrown221]

[QUOTE I gave Marc $300 in case he needs bail money, if not he is putting it towards his fundraiser. He promised to call me when he is released. I will update when I have more information.[/QUOTE] GL23 post

Marc is not permitted to post his own bail. Someone else must post his bail.

gbrown221

[Curmudgeon]

I like when you get your panties in a bunch.

+1. Quite the way with words, eh?

[anonymouse]

For reference:

§ 5503. Disorderly conduct.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:

(1) engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or
tumultuous behavior;
(2) makes unreasonable noise;
(3) uses obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture;
or
(4) creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.

(b) Grading.--An offense under this section is a misdemeanor of the third degree if the intent of the actor is to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, or if he persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist. Otherwise disorderly conduct is a summary offense.
(c) Definition.--As used in this section the word "public" means affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the public or a substantial group has access; among the places included are highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of business or amusement, any neighborhood, or any premises which are open to the public.

§ 2705. Recklessly endangering another person.
A person commits a misdemeanor of the second degree if he recklessly engages in conduct which places or may place another person in danger of death or serious bodily injury.

[GunLawyer001]

. . .
As far as the charges go at least two misdemeanors. Disorderly Conduct and Reckless Endangerment. One is an M2 and one is an M3 according to the detective. . . .

Wow, the PPD is even stupider than I thought.

Expect them to hold these as bargaining chips for the expected civil lawsuit, that's a fairly routine (yet wholly vile) strategy, especially when the charges aren't filed until after the possibility of a civil suit comes to light.

Viper had a weak case before, where his damages were hard to quantify, his detention was brief, and the officers were doubtless responding to a call. This is just...sick. If even one of the officers involved here does the right thing and dimes out the others, who plotted and schemed to charge him just for leverage against the expected civil suit, he's going to have a MUCH better case.

And he'll get a Philly jury, too. Winning.

[son of the revolution]

Reckless Endangerment ?!?!?!? Based on WHAT !!!??????

For not instantly falling to his knees and licking the jackboots ???

Its up to Mark of course, but if it were me, I'd be adding whatever ADA dreamed up that charge to my eventual suit and run them out of town on a rail !

How the hell could ANY person with a nominal amount of brain cells listen to the audio and come up with reckless endangerment ?????

[God's Country]

So let me get this straight, assuming these charges have stemmed from the recorded OC incident, we have disorderly and reckless endangerment, from lawful activity? Typical by the book bull shit charges.

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And I will further presume these trumped up charges are to hopefully waste Viper’s money so he has no money or will to pursue a civil suit.

The MontCo sheriff should be forewarned that revoking Viper’s LTCF as a result of these charges will (again assuming they are baseless) would be unwise.

[anonymouse]

Winning.

Was that a Charlie Sheen reference?

[ArcticSplash]

I was with Marc an hour ago when turned himself in to Detective Boyd. We went to the Northeast Detective Division at 2831 Levick Street. It is also the headquarters for the 2nd & 15th districts.

As far as the charges go at least two misdemeanors. Disorderly Conduct and Reckless Endangerment. One is an M2 and one is an M3 according to the detective. I asked him if he was the one who filed the charges or was it the officers from the incident.

He said someone from the DA's office reviewed the incident and filed the charges. He also mentioned something about a judge either approving or signing off on it. Marc will be held at the aforementioned location and have a video arraignment sometime today. Detective Boyd was pretty sure bail would be small, possibly ROR. I gave Marc $300 in case he needs bail money, if not he is putting it towards his fundraiser. He promised to call me when he is released. I will update when I have more information.

Heh just down the street from my old house. Tell Capt Bachmeyer I said hi.

He should be out by this afternoon.

[JohnUSCG]

Won't it be just a glorious day when the audio clip is played in OPEN COURT!!


That will be very nice for a judge/jury to hear.

[rmodel65]

im just gonna leave this here: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/42/21/I/1985

(1) Preventing officer from performing duties
If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to
prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from
accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence
under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof; or
to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave
any State, district, or place, where his duties as an officer are
required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or
property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his
office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to
injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede
him in the discharge of his official duties;
(2) Obstructing justice; intimidating party, witness, or juror
If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to
deter, by force, intimidation, or threat, any party or witness in
any court of the United States from attending such court, or from
testifying to any matter pending therein, freely, fully, and
truthfully, or to injure such party or witness in his person or
property on account of his having so attended or testified, or to
influence the verdict, presentment, or indictment of any grand or
petit juror in any such court, or to injure such juror in his
person or property on account of any verdict, presentment, or
indictment lawfully assented to by him, or of his being or having
been such juror; or if two or more persons conspire for the purpose
of impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating, in any manner,
the due course of justice in any State or Territory, with intent to
deny to any citizen the equal protection of the laws, or to injure
him or his property for lawfully enforcing, or attempting to
enforce, the right of any person, or class of persons, to the equal
protection of the laws;
(3) Depriving persons of rights or privileges
If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire or go
in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the
purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or
class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal
privileges and immunities under the laws; or for the purpose of
preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of any State or
Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State
or Territory the equal protection of the laws; or if two or more
persons conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any
citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support
or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of the election
of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or
Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the United States; or
to injure any citizen in person or property on account of such
support or advocacy; in any case of conspiracy set forth in this
section, if one or more persons engaged therein do, or cause to be
done, any act in furtherance of the object of such conspiracy,
whereby another is injured in his person or property, or deprived
of having and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the
United States, the party so injured or deprived may have an action
for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or
deprivation, against any one or more of the conspirators.