Post by eye2i2hear on Aug 26, 2006 8:49:36 GMT -5
"fwiw"...
[Dekalb County is metro Atlanta, Georgia... -er U.S. "Georgia"... not Soviet, Georgia]
Oh, no!! God no!!! Not the horrific terroristic "window tint" CRIME!?!
& too bad the mother's seeking of "a quieter pace of life" was still "within the U.S." State (of mind)...
sad~
you can run... but you just can't hide~
source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Metro&State, Aug 26, 2006
[Dekalb County is metro Atlanta, Georgia... -er U.S. "Georgia"... not Soviet, Georgia]
Cause sought in death of traffic stop arrestee
By Mary Lou Pickel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/26/06
The DeKalb County medical examiner's office is awaiting toxicology reports to determine the cause of death of Nigel Smith, a DeKalb man who died after a traffic stop this week when police sprayed him with pepper spray.
Tissue slides sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation could take weeks to come back, medical examiner investigator Jody DeWeese said.
Nigel Smith died in the hospital after being hit on the arm and sprayed with pepper spray.
Meanwhile, the phone has been ringing off the hook at Smith's home in the Cameron Hills subdivision of Ellenwood in south DeKalb, where he lived with his mother. Friends have been calling with condolences and offering memories of Smith, 37.
Smith's mother, Fancella Orr, a native of Antigua, moved to Atlanta from New York for a quieter pace of life 13 years ago.
That's why the fatal end to a traffic stop in a suburban subdivision is so surprising to the family. They said Smith just went to the store to get a loaf of bread.
"He said he'd be right back," his mother said, "and he never came back."
Police stopped Smith's 1994 Lexus on Tuesday afternoon because it "appeared to have illegal window tint," according to a police report. Smith said he had no driver's license, and one of the officers said he thought he recognized Smith as someone he had cited in the past for driving on a suspended license, the report says.
Police patted Smith down and tried to handcuff him, but Smith pushed the officer and ran away, according to the report. An officer caught up, there was a confrontation, and he hit Smith on the arm with a metal baton and then sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, the report says.
Smith later lost consciousness in a patrol car while being treated by paramedics and was taken to the hospital, where he later died, police said.
Smith's family can't understand what went wrong with the traffic stop that occurred just a mile or so from his home.
"Nigel was everybody's teddy bear," his brother Kevin Smith said.
Smith worked security for musicians and would go out of town with celebrities, his family said. He also worked construction jobs, landscaping and installing drywall, his mother said.
Smith graduated from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, where he played point guard on the basketball team, his family said.
"Nigel was a good person. I can't even foresee myself without Nigel right now," said Natasha Allen, a Dunwoody resident who has known Smith for 10 years. "He didn't do anything to anyone to deserve to die like this."
His family has retained the services of Duluth attorney Chandler Mason, who declined to comment on the case. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Fancella Orr said she later found her son's driver's license in his room. "He had forgotten it," she said.
Orr said she would often awaken early in the morning and look out the window to make sure Nigel's car was in the driveway so she'd know he was home safe.
Thursday morning she looked for his car and it wasn't there, she said.
"That's when I really broke down."
By Mary Lou Pickel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/26/06
The DeKalb County medical examiner's office is awaiting toxicology reports to determine the cause of death of Nigel Smith, a DeKalb man who died after a traffic stop this week when police sprayed him with pepper spray.
Tissue slides sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation could take weeks to come back, medical examiner investigator Jody DeWeese said.
Nigel Smith died in the hospital after being hit on the arm and sprayed with pepper spray.
Meanwhile, the phone has been ringing off the hook at Smith's home in the Cameron Hills subdivision of Ellenwood in south DeKalb, where he lived with his mother. Friends have been calling with condolences and offering memories of Smith, 37.
Smith's mother, Fancella Orr, a native of Antigua, moved to Atlanta from New York for a quieter pace of life 13 years ago.
That's why the fatal end to a traffic stop in a suburban subdivision is so surprising to the family. They said Smith just went to the store to get a loaf of bread.
"He said he'd be right back," his mother said, "and he never came back."
Police stopped Smith's 1994 Lexus on Tuesday afternoon because it "appeared to have illegal window tint," according to a police report. Smith said he had no driver's license, and one of the officers said he thought he recognized Smith as someone he had cited in the past for driving on a suspended license, the report says.
Police patted Smith down and tried to handcuff him, but Smith pushed the officer and ran away, according to the report. An officer caught up, there was a confrontation, and he hit Smith on the arm with a metal baton and then sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, the report says.
Smith later lost consciousness in a patrol car while being treated by paramedics and was taken to the hospital, where he later died, police said.
Smith's family can't understand what went wrong with the traffic stop that occurred just a mile or so from his home.
"Nigel was everybody's teddy bear," his brother Kevin Smith said.
Smith worked security for musicians and would go out of town with celebrities, his family said. He also worked construction jobs, landscaping and installing drywall, his mother said.
Smith graduated from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, where he played point guard on the basketball team, his family said.
"Nigel was a good person. I can't even foresee myself without Nigel right now," said Natasha Allen, a Dunwoody resident who has known Smith for 10 years. "He didn't do anything to anyone to deserve to die like this."
His family has retained the services of Duluth attorney Chandler Mason, who declined to comment on the case. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Fancella Orr said she later found her son's driver's license in his room. "He had forgotten it," she said.
Orr said she would often awaken early in the morning and look out the window to make sure Nigel's car was in the driveway so she'd know he was home safe.
Thursday morning she looked for his car and it wasn't there, she said.
"That's when I really broke down."
Oh, no!! God no!!! Not the horrific terroristic "window tint" CRIME!?!
& too bad the mother's seeking of "a quieter pace of life" was still "within the U.S." State (of mind)...
sad~
you can run... but you just can't hide~
source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Metro&State, Aug 26, 2006
I guess the "state" thinks it needs "laws" to say "the previous laws are unlawful" -- why not just stop with all the ridiculous law-creating? 
(Insert Lysander Spooner "Natural Law" quote here 
)
