BANGOR, Maine — A local woman is behind bars after police say she pushed her boyfriend in an argument at their Broadway apartment.
Police were called to the home of Nicole Cunningham, 24, just after 3 p.m. Tuesday after she and the boyfriend had been arguing, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said Wednesday.
Cunningham left the apartment before police arrived, according to Edwards, but when she returned just before 8 p.m., the boyfriend contacted police.
Edwards said officers went to the apartment and arrested Cunningham without incident. The boyfriend was not injured.
Cunningham was charged with domestic violence assault and remains in the Penobscot County Jail. She faces up to a year in jail if convicted.
Pushed her boyfriend = domestic violence assault = arrested = possibility of a year in jail = Crazy!
Yeah so? If he was arrested for pushing her there would be morons on here saying how they want to beat him up for assaulting her and women on here saying how the dv laws are not strict enough.
How TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No matter what, no one should hit eachother, but pushing and going to jail is rediculous!! WTF it’s not right. Even if it was him pushing her I feel the same way.
Pushing is not against the law for some at least it won’t get you arrested even if the other person dies
THANK YOU! That’s rediculous. She might have been hung if she yelled at him for too long
I always have advocated against domestic violence aimed at either party or sex, but if the story was that she pushed him down some stairs, off a deck, out a window or a moving car then by all means do something to the crazy person…..but truly, “pushing” gets one arrested and charged with DV and possibly a year in jail…..Crazy….
If a man pushed a woman you would be singing a whole different tune.
Just raising your voice to a woman and she tells the police she felt threatened gets the same thing never mind pushing someone.
It happens to the men all the time.If the woman claims the guy raised his voice to her and she felt threatened=the same thing ,domestic violence=arrested=possible year in jail and loss of all gun rights.It is crazy
This is not true. It is not a crime to raise your voice and people cannot be arrested for it.
Raising your voice, telling her you don’t have enough money (for her new shoes), or even telling her you want a divorce or to break up is now considered domestic abuse. The Domestic Violence definition is absolutely INSANE. All any woman has to do is squeez out a few tears and say she’s “afraid” or “feels threatened” and he’s going to jail. Protection from Abuse Orders are issued like tissue paper and frankly I don’t know how many of these man manage to keep it together after this INSANE system is turned
on them.
Nope. Not how it works. There are specific DV crimes in statute but raising your voice isn’t one of them. Threatening physical violence, smashing things, physically posturing in an intimidating manner…those can get you arrested but raising your voice over the price of shoes will not give police probable cause to arrest, let alone get a DA to swing for the fences.
I said nothing of DV “statutes”. Raising your voice could get a man arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Laws have little to do with reality. Women easily get men arrested just by lying to police. Claims that “he” raised his voice, did not give her money, and told her he wants out will be cited as “controlling and abusive behaviors” on her PFA. Essentially anything that hurts a woman’s feelings has been promoted to show “her” victimhood and “domestic abuse.”
So many women today hit and kick their men knowing full well they’ll get away with it and that he won’t even defend himself. If police are called it’s the man who’ll get arrested when that same woman squeezes out a tear and says “I was scared, I felt threatened, he was yelling and he didn’t let me [fill in the lie], he made me [fill in the lie].” And that’s all it takes. Those lies are “probable cause” and the man’s going to jail. Take it a step further and he’ll probably lose his guns, won’t be able to post bail or return home if he does, and will probably read about his arrest in the paper under the headline “Men arrested for repeatedly assaulting his girlfriend’s fist with his bloody face.”
A PFA is a civil matter and is not related to who gets arrested or goes to jail. You clearly have very little understanding of how dv statutes (fancy word for laws) work because what you’re saying is completely bogus. Your last paragraph suggests to me that you know that, as well.
PFA complaints are civil but are criminally enforced by police, the DA, and the court. Few things will take your rights away faster and might land you in jail than the PFA order against you (which is rubber stamped by the court because of all the DV lies). There was one woman who made up lies about her husband threatening her. She even texted and e-mailed threats to herself. She even went on TV to cry about how afraid she is and how he needs to be sent to prison. Why? Because she was in a child custody battle with him. He lost his custody battle for his child, lost his reputation in his military career, and was extradited and imprisoned for a period of time until eventually he was able to prove that the whole thing was a lie perpetrated by the wife and her mother.
There are more lies than truth in domestic disputes, and the men are the ones who are punished for those lies.
You are not being honest about what is being done to men
through the courts, and are trying to confuse people with irrelevant nonsense and are engaging in personal attacks against the messenger. I wonder why?
Now lets just think for a minute, if all of the recommendations were implanted from that DV report then she would be either denied bail or it would be something like 50k, she would have to wear an ankle bracelet and would not be allowed to use facebook.
Or is that report only supposed to apply to men?
If she was in Hancock County her boyfriend would be charged with multiple counts of terrorizing, rape, and assault by prosecutor Mary Kellett for upsetting his girlfriend. No evidence against men is required in Hancock County.
That is ridiculous!
Maybe he was in her way…. There should be a ZERO Tolerance against DV regardless to if your a male or female. I bet she is out of jail and right back home with him. I’ve been pushed, cut off, and bumped into at the grocery store. I never called the Poll-ice.
I agree but if it is politically correct to arrest then the DA whan the high conviction numbers. lets face woman and men lie the court is not concerned with guilt just weather they can get a conviction. Some people not guilty take a plea bargin . Just to not risk a year in jail.
Wow, I was thinking about moving to Maine, but if they put small Domestic calls like a Woman pushing her botfriend in the newspaper, then I might not want to move there. I guess there isn’t too much crime if they feel the need to put domestic desputes in the paper. Less crime is great but do they pry into your home life to make up for less crime. I would be in the paper then, I have pushed a boyfriend and I didn’t land in jail or in the NEWS. LOL WOW
What ever happened to the good ole’ days when a woman would just crack the guy up aside the head with a frying pan??
Or a rolling pin!!!!
Ouch!!
Funny the guy who pushed Ralph Greenleaf was never arrested and his name was not released.
It all depends on who you are, and how popular.. Oh, and let’s not forget how wealthy..
People are allowed to defend themselves. Greenleaf was not attacked, he was pushed in retaliation and fell. Those he was attacking did not retaliate beyond what was required to stop him from attacking them. End of story.
Ya one 50 yr old man attacked 3 or more college atholetes??? Couldn’t they have used better judgement ??? I will bet $100 they all could have ran much faster than him. If they did nothing wrong then why didn’t they stay they ran away after he was hurt. You are right We( most people) will never know what really happend . They will not release the records. If he was dunk an running his mouth they could and should have ran away. Not made the situation worse. That would be like me Shoving me 90 yr old grandmother after she slapped my face. He was drunk . It is not an excuse I do not think the should have been charged with murder . But maybe charged with something.
If a 5 yr old hits me can beat the crap out of him???????????? It would only be self deffence.
What was required Funny???????? BS.
At least this didn’t escalate into shoving, that must be hard time in jail.
Its a fund raiser for the State threaten a Year in jail and most people would take a plea just for a fine even if they did not do it…………….
And there goes their right to own guns.
Nobody should plead guilty to a crime they didn’t commit. That’s just foolish!
Ya try it sometimes the DA. will do anything to convict.
Try what? Not knuckling under and pleading guilty to a crime I didn’t commit? Ok, should I be falsely accused of a crime I will certainly exercise my right to maintain my innocence. In my experience only those receiving very poor legal advice would plea to a crime they knew they didn’t do.
Boy, those Bangor women are scary!! Especially if you are a wimp!! But then, maybe she is six two and two hundred and fifty pounds, has a black belt, and a really bad temper. Perhaps there is more to the story and this is an “initial” charge by the cops. The paper probably hasn’t been given all the details yet.
Where do these peopel come from!!??
Maybe he left a messy kitchen,like the guy in Gardner did.
One might want to have his/her date to be, fill out an application and under go
a psychiatric test/evaluation before dating…Getting arrested for pushing
someone…Sheesh! Time to go your own way…
I think we all know she wont even come close to doing a year in jail for one. second people shouldnt push or hit unless in self defence . think before you act. A simple push he or she falls hits there head bleeding in the brain then death. now its a murder charge. hmmmm . think before you act. here is a thought take responsibility for your own actions. do the crime do time. male or female. shouldnt matter who you know or how rich you are. laws are laws agree with them or not. Gotta look at the bigger picture.
In a related story “Man has wife arrested for giving him a noogie”
Wow, jail time for pushing…..the police could fill cells if they walked into Walmart on a friday night.
For pushing? I mean, unless she pushed him thru a window…a year in jail? What about all the other DMV offenders who leave their victims with broken bone & bruises? We really need to toughen up on DMV, but we also need to use common sense. perhaps she really injured him….but pushing , tho wrong, sounds so tame somehow.