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Nasty cough, nasty run-in with the law

Thomasi McDonald, Staff Writer

MORRISVILLE - When Morrisville police officer Chris Gill handed him a ticket, Kent Kauffman coughed. Next thing Kauffman knew, Gill was charging him with assault on a government official.

Gill contends Kauffman intentionally coughed on him three times. According to Gill's report, Kauffman looked into the officer's eyes before "hacking" in his face, Morrisville spokeswoman Stacie Galloway said Wednesday.

Kauffman acknowledges that he coughed two or three times from the window of his Dodge minivan Tuesday but said it was toward Gill's waist.

"He says I coughed in his face," Kauffman said. "But that would only work if he had a 4-foot-long face."

Kauffman said that Gill cuffed him and threw him into the side of the patrol car, and that he ended up on the ground.

"It knocked the wind out of me," he said. "He kept yelling at me to get up. I told him, 'I can't move, man, I'm sick.' "
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Now you look here, you wise-ass little shit ... when I pay for this cop to go out and do his duty, I don't expect for him to have to tolerate fuckwits like you coughing on him ... capisce? I hope he loosened one of your teeth taking you to the ground. If you'd have gotten on the ground (or stopped resisting) when he told you to, you wouldn't have gotten "the breath knocked out of you."

As far as I'm concerned, you've watched one-too-many episodes of "Lefty-TV." Seriously, the cop was just doing his job -- take it up with your elected representatives if you're trying to smuggle cigarettes into Tennessee.

I love it when I'm watching cops and get to see them smear some punk's face into the asphalt. I wish they could turn the dogs on them more. Someone should figure out how to really inflict some pain (legally, of course) on these fuckers when they're running from my duly appointed representatives.