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"If I wasn't stopped for a seat belt infraction, I would get stopped for turning without a light.
At the head of the line, the officer from "Exits and Entry's" stood behind a lady functionary who repeated what he'd said, that since it was the first infraction I was just going to get a warning but next time it would be "very serious".
If someone called me out to my face for a racist infraction, I'd turn flaming scarlet and my lower lip would tremble like pudding in a hailstorm.
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But I did not yet suspect that an international alert had gone out identifying me as the kind of idiot who would pay up on demand for infractions I could not identify.
When I should be disciplining her for some infraction, instead, I see that vulnerable baby girl in my arms on that quiet winter afternoon.
OK, it might not be as grievous an infraction as, I don't know, third-degree murder, but I'd say it's up there with assault – an assault on my eyes and on the reputation of the human species.
Pereira said of the 117 penalties, 74 were snap-infraction penalties (i.e. false start, offside), which are not as subjective as other penalties.
This is about as minor an infraction as I could imagine.
Keith Ikeda, the police chief of Basalt, a small mountain town with a sizable Hispanic population, said, "If we start talking about misdemeanor arrests and traffic infractions, then I believe it erodes the public trust".
À bout de souffle at the Manhattan Courthouse Waiting with all the other scofflaws to be seen for whatever infraction we had committed, I noticed you reading "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky.
She likes to commit small infractions on occasion — "I sometimes walk two feet outside the line at the airport, a little act of defiance" — but all this is in a totally different category from "real badness".
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