While on a vacation in Honolulu, lesbian couple Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero started getting trailed in a Foodland grocery store by a police officer. They'd been kissing and being generally affectionate. Usually, when strange men start trailing kissing lesbians it's a bad scene, but this was even worse than expected. The guy was a uniformed police officer who shouted at them to cease and desist immediately. Twist!
https://twitter.com/foodowncom/status/659688663081578496According to Wilson, they'd been holding hands, and she'd kissed her girlfriend's cheek, which was when Harrison yelled at them. Officer Bobby Harrison approached them again at the checkout line, saying, "You girls don't know how to act. You don't know the difference between a motel and a grocery store."
Officer Harrison came between the two women and grabbed Wilson by the wrist, so she attempted to call 911 for reinforcements against one of their own officers. At that point, Guerrero stepped up. The cop shoved her, and as Guerrero fell to the ground, she kicked him. Things escalated even further, and Wilson got punched in the face.
Harrison had no handcuffs, but he ordered the employees to help him subdue and zip tie the ladies, as other customers stood by slack-jawed. Having made this brave arrest of two kissing women, he charged them with felony assault on an officer. They ended up spending 3 days in jail, paid $1,300 each in bail and were forced to stay in Honolulu as a condition of their release. The women ended up working in Honolulu for months, cleaning motels and were at one point worried they'd end up in a Hawaiian homeless shelter, which probably isn't much nicer than homeless shelters anywhere else.
They're home in California again, but obviously, they're suing. The Honolulu Police Department has opened up an internal investigation into Harrison's motives for the assault (cough homophobia cough). He's been on the force for 26 years, but Wilson says she hopes he won't be for much longer:
I just think that what he did was absolutely wrong without a doubt. I just really want an example to be made.
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