Minnie Carey, a 61-year-old Atlanta resident, was peaceably assembled with three of her friends on a sidewalk outside a convenience store, discussing funeral plans for a friend, when two heroic guardians of public order pulled up next to them. “Move it,” grunted Officer Brandy Dolson of the Atlanta Police Department. Despite the fact that Carey and her friends were not blocking the sidewalk or otherwise causing problems for anybody, three of them complied with Dolson’s imperious demand. Carey herself, however, asked why they were being ordered to vacate a public sidewalk. “Because I said so,” Dolson declared, as if that … Continue reading Cuffed and Stuffed for Asking ‘Why?’