Santa Ana Police Sergeant: She'd Run Over Ferguson Protesters, Too!

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Josue Rivas / OC Weekly
Protesters march for Michael Brown in downtown SanTana
A Ferguson solidarity march last week in Minneapolis turned ugly when a man drove through activists and pinned a teenage girl under his car, sending her to the hospital. The incident made news rounds (with media capturing footage) and went viral online--and that's where we meet Santa Ana Police Sergeant Michelle Miller.

On her Facebook page, the sarge shared a wacky right-wing article titled "Driver Plows Through Ferguson Protestors In Minnesota."

"I would have done the same," she wrote. "I'm surprised this didn't happen more." A friend added, "what are these savages thinking?"

The protest-plowing driver isn't exactly the safest behind the wheel with a trio of DUIs on his record in addition to other related convictions--something the shit blog Miller shared failed to mention!

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Cops say the darndest things!

The Weekly contacted our pal, SanTana police spokesperson Anthony Bertagna, about Miller's comments. "To achieve its mission and efficiently provide service to the public, the Santa Ana Police Department carefully balances our individual employee's rights against the Department's needs and interests when assessing the propriety of an employees' speech and expression," he said. "Where an employee's speech and expression conflict with the policies and performance of the Department, we will take appropriate administrative action," he adds. "Any such administrative action would be considered a confidential personnel matter."

Bertagna hadn't spoken to Sgt. Miller about her online comments at the time of his statement.

Too bad Facebook wasn't around when Know Nothing Hal Netkin hit pro-immigrant protesters with his van outside a California Coalition for Immigration Reform gathering at the Garden Grove Women's Civic Club in May 2005. Wonder what dashboard confessionals la jura would have given then!

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Lynn Klein
Lynn Klein

He did NOT have his hands up, these idiots..They dont even have the facts right. Dont break the law, if you do...do what the cop tells you to do...Common sense

carpetbagger
carpetbagger

With the Weekly checking social media posts for articles now, I can't wait until the stumble upon P. David Benavides TUMBLR page.


It will read like the fox who stole the hen house. Or the creepy desperate divorcee scamming on younger girls.


To be clear, there is nothing wrong with an elected official who abandoned his wife and kids (and kept the house the wife bought through her job) so he could party more and get laid. It just flies in the face of the Jesus loving bible thumper, P. David told us he was.


Love to see that post.

artpedroza
artpedroza

If you idiots are going to protest on our roads and freeways you have only yourselves to blame if you get hit by a vehicle.

Rebecca Luevano
Rebecca Luevano

She's human first. I would run over a protestor if they violated my space. By all means exercise your right, but act civilized. It may be unprofessional for her, but these protesters are acting uncivilzed. Just maybe that's why people are being shot and killed by cops. Acting uncivilzed!

MissAmanda Marie Dee
MissAmanda Marie Dee

Im not making threats, lol I specifically said I wouldnt do something like that....but Id like to :)

Andy King
Andy King

I'm curious how some of the commentators here would react had they witnessed American Colonists protesting an oppressive British regime acting with impunity and refusing to acknowledge colonists most basic freedoms.

Karen McHale
Karen McHale

I don't which is worse......the officer's Facebook post or the posts here. Sgt. Miller's comments were incredibly wrong and unbecoming a law enforcement officer. Sorry, but LEOs must be held to a higher standard because they are charged with upholding the law. For her to publicly post something like this on social media shows her immaturity and unfitness to be a LEO.

Ric Seaver
Ric Seaver

They're doing exactly what they're trying to do, make the news. Protesting at City Hall doesn't make the news.

Ric Seaver
Ric Seaver

With the threats you're no better than her.

MissAmanda Marie Dee
MissAmanda Marie Dee

These ignorant sheep with nothing better to do could be protesting in better ways. The cop is entitled to her opinion. Many other people share the same opinion. Would I like to run them over? Yes. Would I actully do it? No. Would I tell them to their face Id like to run them over, yes. Would I say it public? I just did. That goes for any idiot blocking the road and protesting. I dont care what they are protesting. Sign a petition, start a petition, run a campaign to raise money, protest in front of a law enforcement agency or politicians office...anything thatbwill make a change, but get off the fucking road!!! While standing up for black people and other citizens rights, youre making them late for work, getting them fired, keeping them from their families, causing care workers to be unable to get to priority jobs and enabling people to be sick or not recieve urgent care. They are doing more damage than good. It's doing the opposite of what they are trying to accomplish. Everyone wants to jump on the band wagon and be a martyr or feel like they belong to something. Wrong way of doing it. I agree with the cause myself, but holy mother of god would I like to run these blind fools over too. Wake up sheeple, and use your brains before jumping in the water.

Glenn Scullion
Glenn Scullion

World Peace Join hands! Stop world government aggression, American spring

Jed Spellum
Jed Spellum

The nugs you have on your page can be used as probable cause for a search warrant. It's happened before.

Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert

Feeding into the FUCK the COPS Comments, so much for RESPECT FOR THE LAW, WHEN THE LAW JUZ COULD CARE NOT ONE BIT, EXCEPT SOME 1 looking????

Peyton Farquhar
Peyton Farquhar

LMAO@ the boot licking slaves expressing comments. Blind worship the cops much?

Whophantom
Whophantom

I think she made a criminal threat. Send it to DA Tony R

Dylan St. Onge
Dylan St. Onge

Either way if they are prtesting properly or not. For a police officer to make a comment like that is highly unprofessional, and if she got near me with her car its on

Ty Hosman
Ty Hosman

Threatening a police officer and a bunch of drug crap on your page, telling stories. The police are coming for you!!

vegandawg23
vegandawg23 topcommenter

Need to find out where these scumbag protesters live and park a car in front of their drive way so they can't leave. Tell them you are protesting global warming and see how they like it. You absolutely should run these idiots over if they are impeding the free movement of other people for their attention whoring.

MissAmanda Marie Dee
MissAmanda Marie Dee

I agree with her. At least shes honest. Theyre not even protesting productively. Just being ignorant and irritating.

Leah Moisan
Leah Moisan

If you don't have compassion for humanity, you shouldn't be a cop..............Michelle Miller

Dylan St. Onge
Dylan St. Onge

Id drag that bitch out her car and put a brick in her fucking head

MatthewTCoker
MatthewTCoker topcommenter

Most Christopher Hitchensy-William F. Buckleysy-Keith Obermanny no comment from police EVER!

fishwithoutbicycle
fishwithoutbicycle topcommenter

"I would have done the same," she wrote. "I'm surprised this didn't happen more."

And we should trust this insensitive, clueless ass to protect the public and conduct her duties without bias?

meheecan-cris-doner
meheecan-cris-doner topcommenter

you should start eating your makeup and see if it makes you pretty inside. by the way, you look like the joker, ha!

meheecan-cris-doner
meheecan-cris-doner topcommenter

he will bomb the case if he prosecutes it like the Kelly Thomas case.

jwrb.jb
jwrb.jb

Oh yeah you would....

ltpar
ltpar topcommenter

@fishwithoutbicycle And just what would you have done if your car had bee surrounded by those punks, rocking it and beating on the windows.  Oh sorry, I forgot being Anti-Police yourself, you would have jumped out of your car and joined in the chaos?    

Dino
Dino

@meheecan-cris-doner You obviously missed her point.  She's encouraging people who wish to protest to do so.  She also supports the rights of individuals who do not share the same perspective, which is core to being an American.  She is making a rational point that blocking the roadways does more harm than benefit.  The protesters can be injured or killed, citizens who may or may not support the protest are having their rights to travel freely impeded, law enforcement are distracted, EMT's & Fire Professionals are prevented from saving lives, etc.. Blocking the roadways is stupid and she makes perfect sense.  It has nothing to do with being "pretty inside".  It has everything to do with a small group of individuals taking it on themselves to impact others.  Selfish behavior is not going to bring people to your side and in fact will make people want to "run down" idiots that think they can put their bodies up against a 5,000 lb vehicle.  Most, like Miss Amanda, are intelligent people with morals that would not go forward and do it.  What does not make sense is why you believe it is ok to make a personal attack from the keyboard of your computer.  Real brave.  Perhaps you should use your brain to think through both sides of the argument and then respectfully share your opinion without making unintelligent and derogatory comments to people you know nothing about.  

vegandawg23
vegandawg23 topcommenter

@fishwithoutbicycle @vegandawg23 No, maybe that's a bit harsh. Perhaps, playing on your cellphone and speeding and not noticing that you are plowing into the idiots playing in the street would be more appropriate. It's more than just an annoyance (an annoyance is those greenpeace idiots trying to get you to sign one of their petitions). It's being held hostage for hours on end by social justice warrior types and their useful idiot student and unemployed loser supporters. People have jobs to get to, families to be with, emergencies to attend to and things to do in general and if these people want to disrupt society in their general strike then they need to be put down.

meheecan-cris-doner
meheecan-cris-doner topcommenter

haha u got owned... ice cube said Dick is bad for your health... take that oinkkkster schlong out of your mouth because it's doing some brain damage lol.

missgrumpy2007
missgrumpy2007

@ltpar @fishwithoutbicycle i would have been yelling justice for mike brown justice for all who have lost a life to killer cops, like the 12 yr old boy tamir and the guy who got choked out, i wouldn't have hit nobody with my deadly weapon of a car.. she could have died.. hello we are not above the law either wait do u carry a badge.. because u sick heads think u are above the law u sower to sever under..

meheecan-cris-doner
meheecan-cris-doner topcommenter

yup you are apart of the masses... Dick Cheney said that you dummies believe anything and do everything.

fishwithoutbicycle
fishwithoutbicycle topcommenter

@vegandawg23 @fishwithoutbicycle 

The right to protest is protected by the Constitution. I'm sorry you find this cherished right so inconvenient and that you feel so antagonistic towards people who care about social justice and take to the streets to make their voices heard.

ltpar
ltpar topcommenter

@meheecan-cris-doner Could you try that again in English ass hole.  Does your mother know you are on the internet again before you get your thrid grade homework done?  

ltpar
ltpar topcommenter

@missgrumpy2007 @ltpar @fishwithoutbicycle Why aren't you "Yelling for justice" for all the innocent blacks who have been killed by other blacks in Chicago this year?  Oh that's right, you apparently have a selective conscience?  

ltpar
ltpar topcommenter

@fishwithoutbicycle @ltpar you are seing the endiing of the event and not the start.  Who knows what was there, but a bunch of idiots enmasse.  

fishwithoutbicycle
fishwithoutbicycle topcommenter

@ltpar @FishWithoutBicycle 

And I'm not anti-police...how quickly you have forgotten my comment yesterday in another blog about how I wanted bad cops punished and good cops protected. I also said I still believed there were still some good people in law enforcement.

jwrb.jb
jwrb.jb

You know....you always say the most stupid things. You can protest, but don't stand in the street and block traffic. THAT is NOT your constitutional right....

vegandawg23
vegandawg23 topcommenter

@fishwithoutbicycle @vegandawg23 I somehow think you'd be singing a different tune if it were your driveway being blocked and you who couldn't get to work. Say a bunch of global warming protesters decide to block in every single car on your street. Is this a "right to protest" still? No, it's people trying to disrupt society. I have no problem with people going to a public park and holding signs quietly and not interfering with anyone's lives. Not the case when they are on the freeways blocking traffic.

meheecan-cris-doner
meheecan-cris-doner topcommenter

haha it's called reading, pendejo. get off the couch and stop reiterating what you hear on the news.

Smedley_Butler
Smedley_Butler

@ltpar @missgrumpy2007 @fishwithoutbicycle

Yeah!  What about the justice for the innocent blacks killed by other blacks?  

Oh, that's right the useless, arrogant, bully-boy cops are too busy eating donuts, shooting innocent/unarmed Americans and flapping their stuttering gums on public forums to get off their big porky asses and do their jobs and actually catch the blacks who kill other blacks ... and too smug and self-entitled to respect (or listen to) honest, god fearing, law abiding, tax paying Americans who have the audacity to complain when the cops fail to do what we pay them to do.
 


fishwithoutbicycle
fishwithoutbicycle topcommenter

@gregbpc @fishwithoutbicycle @vegandawg23 I never said they had the right to impede anyone's freedom of movement...but that doesn't give the person being inconvenienced a right to run them over or be violent towards them when it's not warranted.

jwrb.jb
jwrb.jb

You're an idiot....Mexican Chris dorner lover

jwrb.jb
jwrb.jb

You???? God- fearing??? Give me a break.

ltpar
ltpar topcommenter

@Smedley_Butler @ltpar @missgrumpy2007 @fishwithoutbicycle I think it would be accurate to say, "You, ass hole, would not make a pimple on one of those Police Officer's asses."  By the way, not that it matters, the "new breed" Cop doesn't eat donuts and drink coffee.  The now eat soul food, bagles and Lattees.  

Smedley_Butler
Smedley_Butler

@ltpar

I can see why police corruption would be an annoying subject for a guy like you.  It must be tough to hear stuff like this from the same honest, tax-paying, god-fearing, church-going American citizens who used to support you. It must be extra tough to know that the organization that you've devoted most of your life to is now a global pariah and a laughing stock for free citizens all around the world.  

Want to feel even more depressed? Take a few seconds and see what the newspapers in other parts of the world are saying about you bully-boys.  It's not pretty.

ltpar
ltpar topcommenter

@Smedley_Butler @ltpar Fortunately, I did not meet many like yourself, except for street low life's, when I was on the job.  In Irvine we had a good partnership with our citizens, they supported us then and continue to support the Police now. Hate to pop your bubble but American Law Enforcement is not a "golbal parish" as you suggest, but rather a model most countries try to follow.  I have worked as a trainer in a number of those places.  


While experiencing a number of piss poor management decisions over the years, I never saw any real corruption.  If that had not been the case, I would have quit and gone on to a job where I could have made some real money.  


Sorry, to disappoint you but I am not depressed.  I do have to admit,  I would rather be back on the job than retired.  If that were the case, I wouldn't have to sit around exchanging insults with fools like yourself.   

jwrb.jb
jwrb.jb

Exxxxxactly. I agree

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