--- Oooh, we've got more Hatch family goodness for
you.
Seems the youngest daughter, Anne, whose 21st birthday the clan was out
celebrating has been arrested before---this time for attempting to
purchase liquor whilst being underage. Nearly three years ago, Anne Hatch, then 18, was arrested by
Mendota Heights police after she tried to use her oldest sister's
identification to buy beer and then resisted the store owner's efforts
to detain her until police arrived.
And she was violent then, too.
As she came to the counter with two 12-packs of beer, Ha {liquor
store owner} told police, he recognized her from a previous attempt she
had made to buy liquor. When she showed him an ID belonging to her
sister Katharine, then 22, Ha took it and told her he was calling the
police. She became frantic, he said.
"She yelled, 'Let me go! Give me back the ID,' " he said, and shoved
him four or five times. While he was holding her in a bear hug to calm
her, Ha said, she kicked the neon sign and broke it.
Then her family got into the act---again---by trying to corral the evidence against their wee one.
The next day, Ha said, another Hatch sister -- it's not clear which
one -- returned to the store and asked him for the videotape of the
incident. He refused, he said, and she left.
So, now add this in with what the club owner said about what happened in Chicago.
He said that the women became belligerent when his staff determined
they had had too much to drink. "They were being refused service
because of their actions," Vartanian said. "They didn't like being told
no."
Outside the Crobar club, "the girls were screaming at my patrons,
threatening people," and one of them "let everyone know whose daughter
she is." He didn't know which.
...and with what the Chicago Police have said.
According to police, a bouncer asked them to leave the popular
nightclub, which remains open until 4 a.m., after unwelcome advances
from a male patron set off a loud quarrel. The sisters, who were
intoxicated, resisted and told police, "We're not leaving," said
Patrick Camden, Chicago Police deputy director of news affairs.
Then, Camden said, Elizabeth slapped an officer with an open hand and
knocked his glasses off. Police said that Anne wrestled with another
officer and scratched his face; once inside a squad car, she kicked and
shattered a window. "I think even in Minnesota, you would get arrested
for that," Camden said.
Now compare this to what our beloved AG has said about his daughters' behavior.
Hatch said that his daughters are "devastated and they want to be
accountable for their errors and mistakes."
"At the same time, they have indicated there was not an assault. I've
got to believe there have to be cameras at that nightclub that would
show what occurred and we'll know.
"My first instinct is to trust the police officers -- that's my job --
but I'm confident there will be a videotape and that will explain what
happened."
So, who do you
believe? The girls and their dad, or the people who had to deal with
these two drunks? I don't have a serious problem with the fact that
Anne Hatch tried to purchase beer with an older sister's id. Everyone
at some point in their misspent youths has tried to obtain alcohol
illegally. If you don't think this is the case, you're naive in the
extreme. I'm a good girl and I even did it. I just never got busted
(nor did I ever fail, either, but that's another story for another
day). One of the problems here is how this girl reacted to the refusal.
It wasn't her first time being refused, either. If she'd been calm, had
just given up the id and walked away, she wouldn't have had an issue
and probably wouldn't have been arrested. But she didn't do that. She
freaked, to put it simply. And when she became physical, the liquor
store owner was forced to become physical, as well. Life isn't
TV---when you go after someone, they're probably going to come back
after you---and this is even more true when you go after them in a
physical way; it's pure instinct. It's a pretty simple scenario.
Unfortunately, Anne didn't know that. I can surmise that she was
freaking out at the thought of losing the id---which, for someone her
age is a pretty horrible scenario; it cuts you out of all the good
social activities. She probably needed it in the immediate future and
wanted to have it for that occasion. Whatever. The point is that she
thought she could get violent and face no repercussions for her
actions. The other problem that I have here is what Mike Hatch has
seemingly taught his daughters about life in general. Because the
lesson seems to be if
someone gets in your face and tries to deny you something that you
want, you can get violent with them. You're beter than everyone else.
You're not going to be held accountable to the system because I'm going
to show you how to work around it.. This, of course, says nothing
of the fact that his girls seems to flaunt who their father is and
their knowledge of the system to manipulate the outcome of whatever
trouble they've gotten themselves into. Who, in their right mind, would
go to a the scene of the crime the day after and try to obtain the
videotape of the incident other than someone related to a lawyer? One
of them on Saturday night made it plain and clear who their father was,
too---obviously in an apparent attempt to make the cops go easy on
them. Dear God. Is this what law enforcement officers teach their
children? That you can manipulate the system--- just don't tell any of the plebians because we wouldn't want them to have the same priveleged information, would we?