Judge rules actions inappropriate, not criminal.
Vanice Armstrong, charged with disorderly conduct when she made a threatening "shooting" gesture with her hands at a Pothier Elementary teacher Dec. 18 has been cleared of the charge. Woonsocket Police were called to the school that morning for a report of a woman making threatening gestures at a teacher. They spoke with Armstrong, who denied doing anything wrong and was arrested after a brief struggle. Police had extra patrols assigned to the city's schools following the school shooting in Newtown, CT Dec. 14. According to a report by WPRI.com, the judge ruled Armstrong's actions were inappropriate, not criminal. The Woonsocket Call reports Judge Christine Jabour found her not guilty after a one-day trial. Armstrong appeared in Sixth …
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Teacher reported woman made "shooting" gesture at her through a window.
A local woman is due in Sixth District Court today at 2 p.m. to answer a disorderly conduct charge after she allegedly made threatening "shooting" gestures with her hands at a Pothier Elementary teacher though a window. According to a release sent out this afternoon by Woonsocket Police Information Officer Det. Jamie Paone, at about 8:10 a.m., four officers responded to the school at 420 Robinson St. for a report of a woman making threatening gestures at a teacher. Paone said police have extra patrols assigned to the city's schools following the recent school shooting in Newtown, CT. Pothier School, a public school for students in pre-K through second grade, has about 450 students. The teacher told police she was in a conference room …
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russell archambault
1:14 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
So many questions on this issue. Were there witnesses to this situation. Did she also make a verbal threat at the same time. Could police even have the right to arrest her? Was she arrested because of the gesture OR giving police a hard time. The scuffle, was it during being arrested. Should she also have been charged with resisting? A question, What would have happened by the administration is … more ›