Raymond Davis arrested for assault in USA

Interesting story emergin this morning from the US.

A CIA contractor whose murder acquittal sparked a furore in Pakistan has been arrested near his home in the US after a fight over a parking space.

Raymond Davis allegedly hit the man he was rowing with outside a bagel shop in the Colorado town of Highlands Ranch.

He was released from a Pakistani prison in March after the families of two men he had admitted shooting dead in Lahore accepted “blood money”.

The case fuelled the anti-US feeling running high among some in Pakistan.

It also inflamed already tense relations between the US and Pakistan.

Police in Highlands Ranch responded to an altercation between two men outside an Einstein Bagel shop on Saturday morning, Lt Glenn Peitzmeier of the local sheriff’s office said.

Mr Davis was taken into custody on misdemeanour charges of third-degree assault and disorderly conduct, and released after posting a $1,750 (£1,126) bond.

Lt Peitzmeier said the victim had refused medical treatment at the scene.

Local media reported witnesses as saying that a verbal row between the two men over a parking spot had turned physical.

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And to think American govt supported this guy crazily. And we even let him go. Sigh

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Yeah, he’s a real charmer, isn’t he? :grumpy: :nook:

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Everyone in Pakistan supported him, Only JI was alone trying against him .
Do you know who paid the money for him ?

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Saudi Arabia did. However, given that his release was in accordance with Shariah, I maintain that anyone opposed to his release is opposed to Shariah.

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I wonder if his little altercation would have made headlines had he not been the subject of such controversy in Pakistan.....

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are you even serious??

It was FORCED by pakistani govt..........the family of the victims had initially demanded that he be punished...and that they didn't want money........later on they were pressurised by pakistani govt to forgive him on blood money......

so its NOT in accordance with sharia...

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:eek:
Our govt freed this same jerk for murdering out Pakistanis and there he is arrested for assualt

:frusty:

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It has never been proven that they were forced. Their lawyer made this claim, but the families have been completely hush about it.

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...and I read Saudi Arabia was the one that actually funded the payments