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The Only American President to Get Arrested #shorts
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1:00Now PlayingMr. Beat tells you about that time or two a sitting U.S. President got in trouble for breaking the law.
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The only American President to get a speeding ticket wasn’t driving a car. He was driving a horse.
That’d be President Ulysses Grant. Oh he loved to go cruising with his horse and buggy up and down the streets of Washington, D.C. at dangerous speeds. One day in 1872, an African American police officer named William H. West pulled over his carriage for speeding at the corner of M and 13th streets. “Mister President, I want to tell you that you were violating the law by driving at reckless speed.”
President Grant apologized, saying it wouldn’t happen again, and West let him off with a warning. But get this, the very next day, West pulled his carriage over for speeding AGAIN.
“Do you think, officer, that I was violating the speed laws?” Grant asked. “I certainly do, Mr. President,” Officer West replied. He then placed the President under arrest and escorted him down the nearest police station. Grant ended up paying a $20 fine to be released.
More proof that in the United States no one, and I mean NO ONE is above the law.
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