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• Jerome Kinderman posted at 9:15 am on Sat, Apr 2, 2011.

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  Mr. Sommerfield goes on to suggest that "Whoever was in charge of that incident should have issued a citation, and someone should have driven them to their destination since the same would extended (sic) to the suspected DUI person."

  The suspected "DUI person" would have been escorted to jail - is that what you think should have been afforded here? This matter keeps getting funnier all the time; except that very few of us are laughing because it's so pathetic.

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• Jerome Kinderman posted at 9:11 am on Sat, Apr 2, 2011.

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  Of course the questions still remain - did the police act accordingly to the law or did they in any way violate it?

  If the former, why then should "They should have been offered a phone call or have been driven home?" This checkpoint was not a taxi-cab or designated driver service. It was put into place to ensure the safety of other drivers on the road that night. As unfortunate as it was for these two people, the responsibility for that misfortune still rests on their shoulders - not on the police for doing their jobs.

  Where would it have stopped if as you suggest favors be afforded to them? How could the police in good conscience have ever denied the phone call or ride home from other scofflaws once this exception had been made?

  Since no evidence has been provided thus far that the cops did nothing wrong, they MUST be given the respect due to them.

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