Thread:Comments:Police arrest train passenger for a 16-hour loud cellphone conversation/Comments from feedback form - "The lady should sue amtrak for..."/reply (6)

She should sue indeed sue the Salem Police for arresting her on nonexistent legal grounds. There ought to be a thorough investigation of this matter with disciplinary action for the rogue law enforcement officers involved. Whether the woman was being annoying and disrespectful is beside the point- her civil liberties were being violated. The police can't arbitrarily arrest someone if no law is being broken, that's the sort of thing that happens in authoritarian police states. She wasn't even violating any of the Company's policies, so there's no case whatsoever for "disorderly conduct". And will someone please explain to me what relevance some crotchety Australian I've never heard of with an axe to grind against "youths" has to an article about an incident that took place in Oregon??!! This article reads like a headline you'd expect to find in The Onion. "Iowa Man tells roommate he's going to McDonald's 'with or without him', commenting on the matter college student from Mozambique says roommates ought to learn to show some respect"