Pruitt Arrested

[Spfldkid]

cops target all cars out after 2am......that is part of the job....

[LarBrd33]

He's a bum.  I don't know what anyone sees in him.  He will probably be playing in Europe in a couple years.   This is also terribly timing for him...  bye bye to your minutes, scrub.

[Cman]

By profiling, you mean checking on a car that is parked at a green light at 3AM?

I don't care who is driving the car, or what kind of car it is, if I were a cop, I would pull them over too, to see if they are sober enough to be driving. 

Yeah, but the way you do this as a cop is you target the car you want to stop.  Pull up behind it at a stop light.  Light turns green and you hit the siren and pull the poor sap over for being "parked at a green light"... even though it was a nano second.  Of course, I don't know what really happened, and clearly Pruitt was in the wrong for being behind the wheel while drunk.  It doesn't at all excuse what Pruitt did, and he should be disciplined accordingly.

[CDawg834]

Here's what happened, according to officers:

Shortly before 3 a.m., a Los Angeles traffic cop saw the drivers of two vehicles stopped at a green light on W. Sunset Boulevard “having a conversation,” said Officer April Harding, an LAPD spokeswoman. The officer pulled over the Mercedes S550, which Pruitt was operating, for having illegally tinted windows and being stopped at a green light, Harding said.

“During the investigation, which included a field sobriety test, the officer determined that Pruitt was driving under the influence,” she said.

Pruitt, 22, was taken to the LAPD’s Hollywood division jail where he was booked on a misdemeanor DUI charge, police said.

The player’s bail was set at $5,000 but Pruitt had not been released by 8 a.m. local time. The Celtics were scheduled to depart LA at 10 a.m. local time.

“He’s still going through the booking process,” Harding said.

http://bostonherald.com/sports/basketball/celtics/view.bg?articleid=1154838&srvc=home&position=1

"illegal tinted windows" - sounds like profiling to me.

Why give him a field sobriety test?  That's kind of BS.

Stupid Faker fan cops...

If the windows were illegally tinted, how could the officer know the skin color of the person driving the car?  They probably couldnt see inside till they pulled him over,they couldn't have racially profiled if they wanted to.  

Yeah, it's always BS when cops give a drunk person a field sobriety test...let me guess they rigged the Breathalyzer too?

[jdpapa3]

Cops automatically pull over anyone with tinted windows in a nice car...it is a profiling thing, just as I suspected.

[Roy Hobbs]

Cops automatically pull over anyone with tinted windows in a nice car...it is a profiling thing, just as I suspected.

Uh huh.  Blame the cops, not the drunk guy.  Anyway, if tinted windows are illegal, Gabe is an idiot for having them.

Regardless, Gabe has apparently posted bail as of 11:30am EST:

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's website indicated he was released about 8:30 a.m.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/02/boston-celtics.html

[LarBrd33]

cut him.  He's a headcase.   It's one thing to tollerate a homeless man's Orien Greene... it's another thing to tollerate a homeless man's Orien Greene whose also a drunkard.   

Replace him with some random from the NBDL

[Roy Hobbs]

Police tell us that Pruitt's car -- a Mercedes s550 -- was stopped at a green light shortly before 3am at Sunset and Wilcox, which ironically is only about a block away from the Hollywood division of the LAPD.

Pruitt was talking to a person in another car.

A cop saw that Pruitt was not moving his car, and noticed that he had dark tinted windows, so the officer went over to talk to Pruitt.

During the conversation, the officer apparently felt Pruitt had been drinking.

He gave him a sobriety test on the scene, and Pruitt failed.

Pruitt was then taken to a nearby jail where he was given a breathalyzer test, which he also failed.

Police say Pruitt's blood alcohol level was over the California limit of 0.08.

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/02/celtic-star-gabe-pruitt-dui-arrest-new-details.php

(This doesn't sound like the most reliable source, but it indicates that he was administered a breathalyzer.)

[fairweatherfan]

Cops automatically pull over anyone with tinted windows in a nice car...it is a profiling thing, just as I suspected.

And to stay on topic, I don't think Gabe needs to be cut for this - he screwed up, and he should be penalized both legally and by the team, but to cut him just for this is foolish.

Now, if there's legit bench help we can get by cutting him, and we used this as the excuse to do it, well then, that's a different case.

[celticinorlando]

his fault. end of story. move on

[jdpapa3]

Are you denying profiling happens? I blame both parties. It's not illegal to have a conversation with someone. Guys probably high fiving all his boys today for arresting a Celtic.

Haha. A drunkard, huh.

[BballTim]

There's a difference between driving SHATTERED and drunk. And the living a little is having a few brews (probably going over the limit) and heading home, while still being completely competent.

spoken like every person who's ever killed someone driving drunk 5 minutes before they leave the bar.

So are you denying that there is a difference between being shattered and being over the legal limit, yet still able to function properly?

im denying the ablity of anyone who has been at a bar to properly judge there own soberity level, yes.

Do you honestly think anyone who's ever hit someone driving drunk hasen't thought they were "just over the legal limit?"

and what is so hard about getting a DD, planning mass transit (if avalible), calling a cab, or a friend who will come grab you, ect, ect?


I drank pretty heaviliy in college around town every weekend, as do most of us, and never drove drunk once, or even "slightly over the limit". It really wasen't that difficult to take half an hour to figure out how not to be a moron and drive while intoxicated. Nor is it any tougher now at 25.

and no, i don't feel like i missed out on "living alittle" because i didn't risk killing someone at worst or a DWI at best. its not on my bucket list.

  While it's great that you've never driven drunk, your post is pretty unrealistic. Of course many people who drive drunk realize that they shouldn't be driving. You claim that people who have been to a bar are unable to determine if they are impaired yet seem to be able to tell when you shouldn't be behind the wheel. I don't drive drunk, but I did when I was younger (it wasn't seen as a big deal back then) and I can tell you that there's a huge difference between driving while seriously impaired by alcohol and being just over the legal limit. You're lumping people who are just over the legal limit but probably able to pass any field sobriety test with people who can't tell that they're on the wrong side of the highway until they hit someone.

[Schupac]

Why don't people wait to see if he is even charged with anything before saying he's a bum and should lose his job?

I'm not interested in turning this into a raging morality tale like a previous thread on driving intoxicated, I'm just saying we don't know him personally, and we didn't see what happened, and we don't know anyone that saw what happened, and the reasons for pulling him over aren't (not being quick enough on the draw at a green light and *gulp* tinted windows) dangerous.  So how about some of that Celtic Pride and giving him the slightest sliver of a benefit of the doubt?

[Roy Hobbs]

Are you denying profiling happens? I blame both parties. It's not illegal to have a conversation with someone. Guys probably high fiving all his boys today for arresting a Celtic.

It's not illegal to have a conversation.  It *is* illegal to have a conversation while stopped at a green light.  It's further illegal to own a vehicle with tinted windows.  And it's further illegal still to operate a vehicle when you're in a condition to fail field sobriety and breathalyzer tests.

[crownsy]

There's a difference between driving SHATTERED and drunk. And the living a little is having a few brews (probably going over the limit) and heading home, while still being completely competent.

spoken like every person who's ever killed someone driving drunk 5 minutes before they leave the bar.

So are you denying that there is a difference between being shattered and being over the legal limit, yet still able to function properly?

im denying the ablity of anyone who has been at a bar to properly judge there own soberity level, yes.

Do you honestly think anyone who's ever hit someone driving drunk hasen't thought they were "just over the legal limit?"

and what is so hard about getting a DD, planning mass transit (if avalible), calling a cab, or a friend who will come grab you, ect, ect?


I drank pretty heaviliy in college around town every weekend, as do most of us, and never drove drunk once, or even "slightly over the limit". It really wasen't that difficult to take half an hour to figure out how not to be a moron and drive while intoxicated. Nor is it any tougher now at 25.

and no, i don't feel like i missed out on "living alittle" because i didn't risk killing someone at worst or a DWI at best. its not on my bucket list.

  While it's great that you've never driven drunk, your post is pretty unrealistic. Of course many people who drive drunk realize that they shouldn't be driving. You claim that people who have been to a bar are unable to determine if they are impaired yet seem to be able to tell when you shouldn't be behind the wheel. I don't drive drunk, but I did when I was younger (it wasn't seen as a big deal back then) and I can tell you that there's a huge difference between driving while seriously impaired by alcohol and being just over the legal limit. You're lumping people who are just over the legal limit but probably able to pass any field sobriety test with people who can't tell that they're on the wrong side of the highway until they hit someone.

No im implying its stupid to put yourself or others at risk when its quite easily avoidable, whats unrealstic about it?

Im speaking from personal experiance, and i didnt go to college in a city. I found it very easy to plan a night out that didnt include even "buzzed" driving, and i certianly don't have a problem now that i live near boston.