There's a special place in hell reserved for people like this...

3 Charged With Disrupting Memorial Service for Slain Fort Myers Police Officer

Three Fort Myers men were arrested Sunday on misdemeanor charges after they allegedly interrupted a downtown memorial service for fallen Fort Myers Police officer Andrew Widman.  

Thomas Ryan Bellstrom, 24, and Maxwell Gabriel Horth, 21, were charged with disturbing the peace and have since been released from the Lee County Jail on bond.  A third man, identified as Adam Joseph McCann, 19, of Fort Myers, was also identified by bystanders as being involved in the disturbance and was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct, according to the report.  He has since been released on bond.  

The memorial service was being held downtown near 2219 Main St. around 2 a.m. and attended by friends and family, when detective Dion Freeman observed a group of about seven people walking towards the memorial service, according to an FMPD report.  Freeman noted the group was walking towards an area that had lit candles in observance for the memorial.  A man stopped the group and told them not to disturb the memorial, and an argument ensued between the man and Horth, according to the report.

Officer Michael Tomaselli, who was at the memorial, asked Horth to leave several times, but Horth refused and began arguing with the officer.  Bellstrom then punched the man Horth was arguing with and began smashing the candles, pictures and writings that were surrounding the memorial plaque, according to the report.  The two men were detained and transported to Lee County Jail.

Widman, 30, was killed in the line of duty shortly after 2 a.m. on July 18, 2008 in downtown Fort Myers while responding to a disturbance outside a bar.

Fuck those guys.  Glad they got picked up.

They should have stayed classy.  Officer killed LOD= don't f*ck with the memorial service, whether you agree with it or not.

Hopefully the story just left out the part about them getting their asses handed to them by grieving officers.

There is a special place in hell for those types of people.  As far as the knuckleheads getting their just dessert, well I hope the officers had more restraint than to smack them around more than was necessary.
-SleeperShooter

Yes there is, right next to Lovelle Mixon and the Westboro Baptist Church.

So why don't those guys get arrested too?



-Foxxz



 

Because Americans love to abuse exercise their first amendment right, which is protected (ironically by many of the people they terrorize). Unfortunately it seems like the people who contribute the least for this country, feel the most compelled to excercise this right.

The Westboro hate squad has never physically damaged any property at their "peaceful protests" (as far as I know).
Lovelle Mixon has already found his spot and is keeping it warm for his supporters.