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Loud music from apartment lands 3 city residents in court
All three are to appear again in court in August.
YOUNGSTOWN — A combination of loud music, city police and a scuffle with officers resulted in trouble for three city residents.
Alecia Davis, 25, of Cedar Lane, is charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstructing official business and violation of the city’s loud music or noise ordinance.
Her sister, Amanda Davis, 21, also of Cedar, is charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, and Jason Farley, 34, of New York Avenue, is charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing official business.
The Davis sisters and Farley were arraigned Monday before Magistrate Anthony Sertick of Youngstown Municipal Court and released on their own recognizance. All three are due back in court Aug. 25.
According to police, officers were sent Sunday to Cedar on the East Side for a disturbance involving two people arguing. While on Cedar, officers heard music coming from the Davis apartment and asked that the music be turned down.
Officers noted that speakers had been placed in the window facing out toward the street.
Police say Farley became “extremely enraged” at the officers’ request to turn down the music. Reports say all three people refused to follow the officers’ request.
According to the report, they used an expletive and added, “We are at our house and we work; we will play our music.”
Police say the Davis sisters and Farley continually screamed obscenities at officers. Residents from other apartments, after the disturbance continued for several minutes, came outside to try to calm down the trio, according to the report.
Police say Amanda Davis was being restrained by a bystander but broke free and came at one officer “in an aggressive manner” with her fist clenched and hands raised. An officer grabbed her and attempted to arrest her, but she tried to run into the apartment.
Officers wrestled with Amanda Davis, spraying her with pepper spray after the struggle continued.
Police said Alecia Davis demanded officers get off her sister and grabbed in the general area of one officer’s pepper spray and firearm, unsnapping the holster holding the gun.
After being pushed away by police, Alecia Davis lunged at the officer a final time before being arrested, police said.
Farley, according to the reports, became increasingly agitated at the arrest of the sisters and was arrested a short time later after becoming aggressive with officers at the scene.
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ITS ALL GOOD !
I would suggest doing a rap to "I fought the law and the law won". Now they are under a ton of fines along with a record . The money from the rap could then pay the fines .
"Officers noted that speakers had been placed in the window facing out toward the street."
How about considering a broadcasting carreer ? It would be rewarding and less demanding .No court appearances would be needed.
All 3 deserve some time in the slammer.
OMG how can they think that way and not obey the officers requests?
Typical of those kind of people I guess these days.
Classy. Are these ladies single?
Why is it that when police are called to assist, it often brings out the worst in others?
Our police are paid to do a job serving to protect the community. They should not have to serve to protect themselves.
The Davis sisters should also be sued by the officers for assault and battery. No one, not a citizen, a reporter, or an officer should have to accept this sort of abuse.
And don't try to tell me I should have been there to understand. An Assault is an assault, just as battery is battery. The Davis sisters need to realize this situation is not friends and family. It is the police department. Possibly the fines will temper them. Most likely, they will not.
I stand behind every thing VINDYAK said in his comment .
Time to put a stop to this kind of behavior
So were the residents of that street complaining about the loud music? The article states...
"According to police, officers were sent Sunday to Cedar on the East Side for a disturbance involving two people arguing. While on Cedar, officers heard music coming from the Davis apartment and asked that the music be turned down."
If the music was not bothering the people who actually live there then why should the police be able to tell someone to turn it down? Loudness of music is subjective unless they are using a decibel meter.
I do not see anywhere in the article that a complaint about the loudness of the music was made....other than by the police.
Vindyak is a genius! These officers should sue them. I hope this idea flourishes across the country.
Sotired, the one woman was charged for a "violation of the city’s loud music or noise ordinance."
If there's an ordinance prohibiting loud music, it's their job to enforce it.
That's like saying, "well, no one in the neighborhood complained that I was going 20 mph over the speed limit, so why should a police officer be able to give me a ticket and tell me I have to slow down?"
Unfortunately in Youngstown, loud IS a matter of opinion. They do not have an official measurement or device to measure it. It is the judgement of the responding officer. If you ask me any music that I don't want to hear is too loud...that is my opinion but does it make it a violation of the law? No.
If people are playing their music during a time when it is legal to play music or mow their lawn or run a chainsaw and the police are responding to a different complaint, perhaps they need to just leave well enough alone.
Too many cops carry that swagger and tell people do what I say or I'll take you to jail. When they have no business saying it. I wasn't there. I don't live in that neighborhood. But it sounds to me like the cops wanted to swing their manhood around a bit.
Show me the decebel readings that the cops took prior to starting the bs that went on.
Okay, then explain why they felt it was necessary to have the speakers face outside of their apartment.
Oh, let me guess. They must have been carrying on as productive members of society and doing yardwork or the like to make their neighborhood look presentable, all while they were just listening to some "tunes" to help pass the time. Right.
I get what you're saying, tired, but they asked for this to happen. Regardless, they never should have acted the way they did.
Police officers get paid to get attacked by ferocious females. They are not allowed to sue them, but, they are allowed to use their tazers. " set 'em to stun"
sotired:
"Too many cops carry that swagger and tell people do what I say or I'll take you to jail. When they have no business saying it."
It doesn't take a genius to decide that the law can and will do you some serious harm if you don't obey their commands. The subculture does thier thing and then they complain about the results. ITS ALL GOOD !
Cedar Lane is part of the Rockford Village (formerly Kimmel Brook Homes) public housing project. This is a perfect example of the "entitlement mentality" that pervades most of those whose reside in and around public-owned housing. They felt that they were entitled to play their music as loud as they wanted. Doesn't YMHA have rules regarding the placing of speakers in windows? You can rest assured knowing they weren't doing any type of useful work there, as all property maintenance there is done by YMHA. To place them in jail for this is to transfer them from one taxpayer-owned facility to another, at even greater expense. A textbook example of what subsidizing failure leads to.
The Harvard professor who was arrested was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in his own house despite showing 2 forms of ID. It's quite ironic that the young lady in this story was charged with the same crimes at her own home.
If she rents...whatever...it does not matter. Mowing the lawn. Working in the yard. Laying in the sun. Having a cook out. My neighbor has a pool and blasts a radio all day. The radio is outside and anyone can hear it. Now if I get into an argument with my wife and the cops come, why should my neighbor have to turn her radio down?
Just because a cop says to do something, it does not mean he is right. It's the difference between picking a fight or finishing a fight. The arguement the cops were called to was to end the fight. So then the cop apparently decided that the radio was too loud and picked a fight with the people.
Was it racially motivated? I would bet some serious money that it was. That does not happen in my neighborhood because we are all the same color and any police officers who would respond are all the same color. No wonder people feel that the chips are stacked against them. And all the racists hiding behind their fake names in this section are part of the problem as well.
The us against them mentality has to stop. I cannot imagine having to live life facing what many face and not being extremely bitter about it.
We need to stop subsidizing the failures of the great capitalists and make some jobs. I dont care if its raking the damn forests.