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Quotes About Arrest

Aye, well, technically he's no' in custody yet. He's just had an unfortunate toilet-related mishap.
~ Stuart MacBride
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
~ Martin Sheen
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.
~ Cornel West
Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.
~ Luis Gutierrez
The lead investigator, the person on the scene, the person that normally law enforcement would say is in the best position to there is prospect in arrest, he apparently was effectively overruled by people sitting back at the office. It does happen, but it certainly raises a lot of questions."
~ Kendall Coffey
Only a handful of inmates have ever gone to trial. Many were arrested years ago on minor charges such as stealing chickens or bicycles. The police refuse to take them before a judge, so they languish indefinitely, with no sentence to serve. If you're a rich murderer or rapist, you can easily just bribe your way out of trouble. But if you're a poor chicken thief and you get caught, you're lost.
~ Kenneth Cain
He was working late to plant evidence that, he hoped, would lead to the arrest and conviction of a reprobate named Brantley "B. G." Myers. Planting evidence required stealth, skill, and planning. Cody was up for the job. In fact, it was one of his specialties.
~ C.J. Box
June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?
~ Carl Bernstein
My friends and family in Turkey could be arrested just for talking to me.
~ Enes Kanter
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.
~ Rosa Parks
I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
~ Foxy Brown
He confessed over and over again to anyone willing to listen, until finally a police officer kindly offered to arrest him.
~ Neal Shusterman
One of the most revealing details about my parents is that they only got together three months before my dad's arrest.
~ Granit Xhaka
Rather than arrest the assailant, white police officers hauled off a black bystander who objected to their inaction.
~ Timothy B. Tyson
running across the street to get out of the way of mounted police meant obstructing traffic. Finally Dr. Rio. A Cadillac. A hammer. A gentle, almost reluctant arrest. After an hour's wait, no charges pressed, no write-up or interview, they gave her back the shopping bag and let her go.
~ Toni Morrison
In Hungary, during the years 1948–53, about one million people (of a total population of less than ten million) are estimated to have suffered arrest, prosecution, imprisonment or deportation. One Hungarian family in three was directly affected.
~ Tony Judt
I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.
~ Klaus Fuchs
Unrequited love sucks. It should be against the law." She brightened. "If it was, then I could have Rick arrest me. I'd love to be handcuffed to him.
~ Carla Cassidy
You have to be able to catch someone to arrest them.
~ Carrie Jones
Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
~ Carrie P. Meek
Two days after he had appointed the special oversight commission, sixty-one-year-old Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, an APSA senior accountant, was arrested. Prosecutors charged he was the mastermind in helping friends avoid taxes on $26.2 million, some of it cash flown to Italy on a private jet from Switzerland.
~ Gerald Posner
Are you gonna arrest a robber? Know any? My friend Everet stoled a candy bar from the store, but his ma found out and made him go pay for it out of his 'lowance, and he couldn't have candy or nothing for a whole month. You could arrest him. He's over there. He pointed, cheerfully ratting out his pal. It sounds like he's paid his debt to society.
~ J.D. Robb
You have the right to remain silent. You also have the right to put on pants before I cuff you and have you taken into Central.
~ J.D. Robb
A good cop, a smart cop, closes cases and locks up the bad guys.
~ J.D. Robb