The blogosphere is alive with chatter about professional wrestler Ric Flair, who currently works for TNA Wrestling, and his wife having ". . . an unfortunate disagreement late [Sunday] night, which led to his wife being arrested and charged with assault," according to Flair's agent.
Jacqueline Beams is the fourth wife of Flair, the two of them having been married just three months ago. Looks like the honeymoon's over.
This seems pretty straight foward, but I suspect more will come out later. In November 2005, Flair was arrested following an apparent case of road rage where he allegedly grabbed a motorist by the neck. Yikes.
And then in September of 2008, Flair was involved in an incident with his daughter (daughter?) where she was arrested for police interference. Evidently Flair got "roughed up" and received cuts on his face and a black eye! That must be one tough daughter.
I'm posting about this because of the problem that law enforcement has in determining who to arrrest in domestic abuse cases. I'm reading that many agencies are now training their people to actually do investigation at the scene of the domestic violence, to literally determine who threw the first punch.
Whoever started the fight is then the person arrested, the theory being that the person receiving that first punch (even tho perhaps less injured) was only defending themselves.
And, of course, you guys know that I'm posting this to remind you to be very careful not to let your female partner goad you into anything physical.
Very few police agencies are training their people to discover who threw that first punch. If a woman picks up the phone and cries "domestic violence", you're probably going to be the one going out the door -- with an arrest for domestic violence on your record and possibly losing your job.
I'm curious to know what you think about the police doing deeper investigation at the scene. Would that have helped you or someone you know?
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