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Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Nobody: 1:20am On Oct 30, 2015
The Honolulu Police Department opened an internal investigationWednesday into allegations that an officer wrongfully arrested a vacationing lesbian couple after seeing them kissing in a grocery store.

Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero, who were visiting Hawaii from Los Angeles in March, said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that they were harassed and arrested because the officer didn't like their public displays of affection in a Foodland store on Oahu's North Shore.

They were walking through the aisles holding hands and at one point hugged and kissed, the lawsuit said: Officer Bobby Harrison, who was shopping in uniform, "observed their consensual romantic contact and, in a loud voice, ordered plaintiffs to stop and 'take it somewhere else.'"

The women complied and continued shopping, the lawsuit said. When Harrison again saw them being affectionate with each other, he threatened to have them thrown out of the store.

"We're used to people making remarks here and there," Wilson said of their two-year relationship.

While the women were in the check-out line, Harrison grabbed Wilson by the wrist, and she started to call 911, she said.

"He was bumping his belly against Courtney," Guerrero said. "He said, 'you girls don't know how to act. You don't know the difference between a motel and a grocery store.'"

When Guerrero tried to get in between her girlfriend and the officer, he shoved her. She kicked him as she was falling, she said.

The women were arrested and charged with felony assault on an officer. They spent three days in jail and each paid a bail bondsman $1,300 for bail that was set at $12,000 each, they said. They had to remain in Honolulu as a condition of their release.

The charges were eventually dismissed, Seitz said.

In the meantime, they had to stay with family friends or strangers they befriended. At one point they thought they would have to go to a homeless shelter. They found jobs cleaning vacation rentals.

The incident happened on the second day of their vacation, which was their first trip to Hawaii.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lesbian-couple-arrested-after-kissing-in-hawaii-grocery-store_5631369ee4b0c66bae5ad2c2

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Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Mrbigman1(m): 2:16am On Oct 30, 2015
Waste
Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Nobody: 2:44am On Oct 30, 2015
Nawa oh. So two women can't make out again?
Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Nobody: 2:46am On Oct 30, 2015
Morally upright officers

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Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Nobody: 3:31am On Oct 30, 2015
Raymondenyi:
Morally upright officers
cool
Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Nobody: 6:16pm On Oct 30, 2015
In Naija, they'll spend 14 years in prison
Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by mayorski01(m): 6:34pm On Oct 30, 2015
Whats so annoying about homosexuals is the fact that they don't seem to agree with the fact that what they do is wrong

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Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Nobody: 6:44pm On Oct 30, 2015
mayorski01:
Whats so annoying about homosexuals is the fact that they don't seem to agree with the fact that what they do is wrong
If u say so...
Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Dhugal: 6:53pm On Oct 30, 2015
mayorski01:
Whats so annoying about homosexuals is the fact that they don't seem to agree with the fact that what they do is wrong
Care to explain how whatever it is they do is wrong and affects you or me?
Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Nobody: 5:20pm On Nov 21, 2015
End times
Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Nobody: 8:05am On Nov 26, 2015
Re: Lesbian Couple Files Lawsuit After Hawaii Cop Arrested Them For Kissing by Nobody: 7:40am On Jan 08, 2016
CFCfan:
Lmao

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