How low on the Tribune totem poll is one to be assigned to cover this court case for the wife of a former Bull role player from two seasons ago?
Art Barnum: Coffee toss by wife of ex-Bulls player unprovoked, victim says | Chicago Tribune
A Minooka woman testified Wednesday she did not provoke the wife of former Bulls player Antonio Davis into throwing a cup of coffee at her during a 2005 traffic altercation in Naperville...Davis was arrested and charged in February 2006 after Kathleen J. Bessner, 41, of Minooka claimed Davis assaulted her Oct. 27, 2005, at Naper Boulevard and Market Drive. According to Bessner, Davis threw a cup of McDonald's coffee into her driver's-side window.
Davis, who is African-American, told police that she threw the coffee after Bessner used a racial epithet. Bessner denies using the slur.
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“I was prepared to say, 'Things happen, OK,' but she looked at me very, very meanly and I saw her throw a cup of hot coffee at me,” Bessner testified. She said she used her cell phone and called 911 while following Davis to her home in a gated subdivision.Bessner acknowledged under cross-examination by Davis' attorney, Kathleen Colton, that she had been smoking a cigarette and talking on the cell phone when the incident took place.
Colton said during her opening arguments Wednesday that Davis threw the cup of coffee on the ground, and that some of it may have gotten on Bessner. But Colton claimed that Bessner vigorously pursued the case after “she found out Kendra Davis had a great deal of money.”
Mind you, this is just the testimony from Ms. Bessner, and not Ms. Davis, but Bessner sounds like a wack-job already. “Looked at her meanly”? “Followed her to her gated community”? Who follows the car of someone who yells at you? You'd never be able to drive anywhere in less than 18 hours.
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