Library patron ‘terrified' at prospect of jail time. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 9/3/2011)
Excerpt: es, Donnetta Foster admits she was asked to leave the Decatur library last October after her toddler laughed too loudly at flash cards.
Yes, she said she became boisterous herself when a DeKalb County police officer arrived and ordered her to leave the library’s grounds.
And yes, Foster acknowledges some of her choice words included profanity.
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Foster said she was at the library to use a computer to prepare for a job interview the following day. She said she had used the library before, but this was the first time she had taken her son, Savon, who is now 2.
Foster and Savon had only been there for 15 minutes before the incident over her laughing child began.
She said she quieted Savon but a security officer came over and asked her to leave. She appealed to a library staffer, but she said the staffer shut her computer down and asked the security guard to escort her out.
According to the Decatur police report, officers were called to the library because Foster refused to leave the property. Officers arrived and escorted her out of the building.
Foster was issued a criminal trespass warning and “became irate yelling in a loud and boisterous manner,” the report said. Foster was asked several times “to calm down and walk away” and told not to return. The report says Foster left but returned “within minutes … yelling and cursing.”
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