"She immediately became hostile to us," Officer Ryan VanDeusen testified. He said that she continued the verbal assault when the officers returned to their squad car.

"It was very loud, it was antagonistic, it was very derogatory toward my partner and I," he testified.


I??d guess that the woman and her husband probably did antagonize the cops, who came to investigate something (possibly dangerous) and were met with verbal abuse and physical hostility by this couple. Cops are human beings, and all people have their limits. If anybody does not understand this, and throws more fuel on a fire, then they can't expect to walk away unscathed every time they get nasty with law enforcement officers who, by the way, are putting their lives on the line every day for the public.

All she had to say was something like, ??Everything??s OK here, officer, I hit the horn by mistake. Sorry!?. I think that would probably have prevented the problem from escalating.