Any typos, etc. are mine. Couldn't find a link on the Coloradoan website - typed it in.
Some items abreviated 'cause I didn't feel like typing them over & over.
Info from the police re why it took almost a month to charge Trine should be forthcoming but seems their public relations folk don't work weekends. That # is (970) 221-6333). City Attorney's # is (970) 221-6520
Bit of a different slant to this article than Waynes a week or so back ...
"Million Mom altercation results in assault charge
By Jenn Farrell/The Coloradoan 9/2/00
A gun-control supporter who attempted to block her face with a clipboard during a heated Million Mom March meeting last month has been charged with assaulting a protestor, Ft. Collins police said Friday.
Cherie Trine, 41, of Ft Collins (524 West Magnolia Street, Ft Collins, 80521, (970) 472-9828), was at the Aug. 15 meeting between the MMM & SAFE CO members & Tom Mauser, whose son was killed at Columbine High School. The meeting was held to talk about an amendment on November's ballot that would require anyone selling guns at a gun show to conduct a background check.
The meeting erupted into a dispute between the Tyranny Response Team, whose members are opposed to the amendment, and those attending the meeting. When a protestor pointed a video camera at Trine, she held up a clip board, police and witnesses said. She is accused of causing the eyepiece of the camera to be pusjed into the protestor's eye.
Ft. Collins police spokeswoman Rita Davis said Trine was cited for third degree assault, a class 1 misdemeanor. Class 1 misdemeanors are punishable by between 6 & 18 months in jail and a fine of $500 - $5,000, according to CO Revised Statutes.
Davis said she did not have the assaulted protestor's name.
Trine said she was holding the clipboard out to the protestors so they could sign up as new members. She said she raised the clipboard in front of the camera, but did not swing it.
"I feel like I'm getting kind of scapegoated out of the whole thing," she said. "If I'm being scapegoated, it's because the people I feel really broke the law was the Tyranny Response Team. I don't feel like we (The MMM) did anything wrong that night."
Some items abreviated 'cause I didn't feel like typing them over & over.
Info from the police re why it took almost a month to charge Trine should be forthcoming but seems their public relations folk don't work weekends. That # is (970) 221-6333). City Attorney's # is (970) 221-6520
Bit of a different slant to this article than Waynes a week or so back ...
"Million Mom altercation results in assault charge
By Jenn Farrell/The Coloradoan 9/2/00
A gun-control supporter who attempted to block her face with a clipboard during a heated Million Mom March meeting last month has been charged with assaulting a protestor, Ft. Collins police said Friday.
Cherie Trine, 41, of Ft Collins (524 West Magnolia Street, Ft Collins, 80521, (970) 472-9828), was at the Aug. 15 meeting between the MMM & SAFE CO members & Tom Mauser, whose son was killed at Columbine High School. The meeting was held to talk about an amendment on November's ballot that would require anyone selling guns at a gun show to conduct a background check.
The meeting erupted into a dispute between the Tyranny Response Team, whose members are opposed to the amendment, and those attending the meeting. When a protestor pointed a video camera at Trine, she held up a clip board, police and witnesses said. She is accused of causing the eyepiece of the camera to be pusjed into the protestor's eye.
Ft. Collins police spokeswoman Rita Davis said Trine was cited for third degree assault, a class 1 misdemeanor. Class 1 misdemeanors are punishable by between 6 & 18 months in jail and a fine of $500 - $5,000, according to CO Revised Statutes.
Davis said she did not have the assaulted protestor's name.
Trine said she was holding the clipboard out to the protestors so they could sign up as new members. She said she raised the clipboard in front of the camera, but did not swing it.
"I feel like I'm getting kind of scapegoated out of the whole thing," she said. "If I'm being scapegoated, it's because the people I feel really broke the law was the Tyranny Response Team. I don't feel like we (The MMM) did anything wrong that night."
