A woman in Houston, Texas, was arrested and jailed for 12 hours after she held up a make-shift sign to warn drivers about a speed trap. Lol!!! Freedom of speech went out the window in this situation.
Natalie Plummer was officially charged with walking in the roadway — jaywalking, essentially — though she says the police officers who arrested her were just angry that she had tipped off speeders. Miss Plummer was riding her bicycle along a road near downtown Houston on Thursday when she spotted police officers pulling drivers over. Shortly after she took up her post, a squad car pulled up to Miss Plummer and an officer grabbed her backpack off her shoulder and began rifling through it. Then, he handcuffed her and told her she was under arrested for felony obstruction of justice and that she would spent three to five years in jail, at minimum. She ended up being charged with misdemeanor ‘walking in the road where a sidewalk is present,’ through she was in jail 12 hours before she was able to bail out. Miss Plummer said she wasn’t obstructing justice, and she wasn’t in the roadway, either — she was on the sidwalk. ‘He couldn’t take me to jail for holding up this sign or he would have. So all he could do was make up something fake about it,’ she said.
