Nintendo of Japan (the parent company) has over 9 billion yen (about 8 billion in us dollars) in the bank according to the fiancials they just released a couple of days ago. And they made a profit last year. They aren’t selling for the money.

The new M’s CEO is on the board at MS, but he’s more known and made most his money, in the cellular/internet business. Founded T-Mobile and Clearwire. Rest of the group has no connections to MS.

Agreed. I had to look up Michigan’s law, it actually says “identify yourself by stating...” and when pulled over or buying booze it’s “provide photo identification”. So they called “identifying yourself” giving your name, which then makes this story make a bit more sense. He asked her name, she refused to tell him,…

In case you didn’t notice, Michigan has a law on the books that says you MUST use the sidewalk if there is one. Period. Not “when you feel like it”. The cop told her to get on the sidewalk to comply with the law, she ignored him. She got arrested for failing to stop when told, and failing to ID herself (yes, Michigan…

That’s why those laws were worded the way they were. It’s not “proper” for a woman to swear, so by making it illegal to swear in front of one, you can punish women who do it and force manners on men. Sexist law was sexist. You see this kind of nonsense in the older laws, worded vaguely enough to be consider “affecting…

Correct. Which means she couldn’t swear, or she’d be swearing in front of a woman. (Dumb, yes. But archiac sexist laws were done like that on purpose.)

The question become how much longer did she run down the street before turning down the side street. The smallest seeming amount I can find using google maps is about a 1/4 of a mile. Also refusing to stop is a problem, as when he told her to get on the other side and she continued, he might have decided to issue a…

If you think telling a cop off after he tells you that you need to get up on the sidewalk because you’re breaking the law is a positive, you need to remove yourself from society until you learn to follow same rules the rest of us do.

It’s clear from the video she didn’t believe what she had been doing before was illegal, not why she was being arrested.

Stopped what? Stopped running on the wrong side of the street? She didn’t stop until he got way ahead of her and forced her to stop (using google maps, we can see the minimum distance from where she was arrested and Lee Road is half a mile). You don’t get to just ignore cops.

Didn’t kick in until March of this year. This even happened in Jan.

First he informed her she was breaking the law (the linked article actually says “told her” the one here uses “asked her”.), she ignored him. He got out of his vehicle to tell her to stop, on a different road. Assuming he saw her at the corner of Lee and Rickets, it’s still a quarter of a mile to Mission Road. We also…

Michigan calls it “resisting and obstructing”.

Except it’s clearly stated she was on the north side of the street. If you use google maps and look at the north side of Lee road you can see that A. There’s no sidewalk, it’s on the southside and quite a distance away from the street, so the cop would have yell for her to hear. And B. There’s almost no space to be…

Actually it is. Michigan repeal of it’s “no profanity” law didn’t kick in until March 14, 2016. since this happened in Jan. they could still quote that law on her if they wanted to.

If you read the article they linked from, there’s the appropate law for the state, which does say if there is a sidewalk, you have to use it. If you look at the first street mentioned, Lee Rd, there’s clearly a sidewalk.

If you go to the linked article, you find the law states in the state of Michigan you must use the sidewalk when there’s a sidwalk. He asked her the first time to get up on the sidewalk and she refused. At that point she was obstructing. The obstruction mandated the arrest, the first “crime” would have required her to…

If you read the whole linked article, he drove next to her, asked her to get up on the sidewalk and she refused. He told her to stop. She refused. He had to go up two more streets before he got her to stop. At that point, you’re clearly ignoring a lawful order from a police officer, which is obstruction.

No. If you’re committing a minor offense, like something you’d get a ticket for, but continue to do said offense after being told to stop, you’re ignoring an officer’s lawful request and under most state laws, resisting arrest or impeding an officer.

You mean like this line in the article says he did?