Up Against The Wall, Soccer Mom
August, 2001
It is not unconstitutional for a police officer to be a jerk." So said Justice Anthony Kennedy during oral arguments in the case of Atwater vs. City of Lago Vista.Officer Bart Turek, the subject of the endorsement, certainly qualifies. In March 1997 he observed Gail Atwater driving a pickup at slow speed on a residential street in Lago Vista, Texas. Her three-year-old son and five-year-old daughter were standing on the front seat, unbuckled, peering out the window. The family was scanning t...
