Who does this, that must be a criminal offence surely?
Last Christmas Eve, a little after one in the afternoon, a woman called Katie Lawson tried to pull her car out of the South Bay Mall in Boston.
Beside her, she noticed a woman in a Chevy Tahoe who appeared to be yelling and gesticulating.
The woman rolled down her window and started to scream at Lawson, "Do you want me to write you a ticket?" She barked, "Because I'll write you a ticket. Today is not the day to try me." And with that, this mysterious woman turned on a set of emergency police strobe lights on her SUV.
Watching all this, Katie Lawson was rattled. Clearly, this was a mentally ill police officer. By definition, a highly dangerous person. So, Lawson asked a friend and a passenger seat to take a photograph of the Tahoe's license plate, then she contacted police to let them know they had an unbalanced officer on their force, not a small thing.
But it turned out the woman in the Tahoe was not a police officer, she was just impersonating a police officer. She had no power to arrest Katie Lawson or write her a ticket, who by the way had not broken any law anyway.
The woman never should have had cop lights on her car.
It turns out her name was Rachel Rollins, who was a local political activist, who somehow had been elected Suffolk County Prosecutor.
When the story became public, Rollins was not embarrassed. She did not apologize for acting like a lunatic, much less for abusing her power.
Instead, Rollins went on Twitter and compared herself to Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. The implication of course, Katie Lawson, a registered Democrat was a Klansman.
Well, a few days later, a news crew from the local FOX affiliate, BOSTON 25 tracked Rollins down to hear more of her story. The channel's cameraman was very careful not to shoot any images of Rollins's home or her family, but Rollins immediately became hysterical anyway.
Watch this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PRODUCER: Can we speak to you for one second Miss Rollins?
RACHEL ROLLINS, SUFFOLK COUNTY PROSECUTOR: You're in front of my house
with my children?
PRODUCER: We literally just pulled up here.
ROLLINS: Yes, but how do you know where I live?
PRODUCER: Oh, it's public record, ma'am.
ROLLINS: Right, okay. That's unbelievable.
PRODUCER: We're not stalking you at all.
ROLLINS: Yes, but my kids are inside.
PRODUCER: Oh we never even knocked the door. We're just parking here trying to figure out where we're going and someone said he saw you here.
ROLLINS: Yes, okay. Thanks.
PHOTOGRAPHER: We just happened to see you.
ROLLINS: Yes. No. I'm going to -- please make sure that you're in front of my house with my children inside and you're going to put this on here.
PRODUCER: Oh, this is your house? I'm sorry.
ROLLINS: Yes, so as a black woman in this moment, in this country, you're going to put my [bleep] house on the screen?
PRODUCER: No, no, no, ma'am. We're just here approaching you to ask you a question.
ROLLINS: Get away from my family. Speak to me at my job.
If I get hurt or harmed because of this, you are on the record for that, or my kids are [bleep] killed, who do you think you are?
Get -- this is private property. Get out of here.
PRODUCER: Okay, we're absolutely getting out.
ROLLINS: And you know what I'll do, I'll call the police on you and make an allegation.
PRODUCER: Okay.
ROLLINS: And we'll see how that works with you.
PRODUCER: Okay.
ROLLINS: So the rantings of a white woman get you here and scare my children.
PRODUCER: No, no, no.
ROLLINS: Get off of our private property.
PRODUCER: We're here to ask you about it. We're here to ask you.
ROLLINS: And I swear to God, I'm dead serious, I will find your name. You can ask me somewhere else. Do not have a camera in front of my house.
PRODUCER: I can give you my name. I can give you my name.
ROLLINS: Get her -- get them out of here. This is the Boston Police. I will have you arrested. I swear to God.
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-you-cannot-make-these-people-federal-prosecutors
