Maybe they should print a warning on alcoholic beverage containers: “Don’t yell or curse at police during or immediately after the use of this product.”
Last week, two Banks County men ended up going to jail after one, while intoxicated, yelled obscenities at police.
This past week, a Commerce man who attracted attention to himself by yelling at a police officer he passed on Jefferson Road, wound up in jail on drunk driving and disorderly conduct charges.
According to the incident report, the officer passed Bryan Oneil White, 21, of 544 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, on the Jefferson Road. He heard White yell at him, and when the officer turned his vehicle around, he saw White turn onto Lakeview Drive in what the officer considered an attempt to elude the officer.
It didn’t work.
The officer pulled White over and asked White why he yelled, the report said. The officer said White “started stuttering and could not give a reason” then later claimed he was talking loudly to a passenger.
The officer noted the smell of alcohol, and asked White to perform a field sobriety test. After arguing that he had trouble with the test because he was “slow” and had difficulty understanding the directions, White took the test and, in the officer’s view, failed. A roadside Alcosensor produced a .119 reading.
The officer said that when he asked White if he had any weapons on his person, White said no, but the officer found a “large knife” in his pants pocket, the report indicated. White allegedly told the officer he “forgot” about the knife, then said he carried it “in case someone tried to get him.”
When the officer arrested White, the suspect began yelling at the officer, claiming the officer was “setting him up,” the report said.
