Police: Sims defies officer’s orders

State Rep. Kathy Sims defied a traffic officer’s instructions on the Fourth of July, according to a Coeur d’Alene Police Department report.

The next day, when she was asked by the officer where he could deliver a ticket to her, Sims is quoted as saying, “I have a P.O. box in Cd’A. This is Representative Kathleen Sims!”

According to the report, the officer stopped Sims at Seventh Street and Lakeside Avenue around noon on July 4, presumably just after the annual Independence Day parade downtown. He told her the road was closed and that there were alternative routes for crossing Sherman Avenue, noting “the road and intersection in front of her was filled with pedestrians.” Sims, according to the report, told the officer she would wait for things to clear instead of turning her vehicle around.

“I started to walk away from her truck,” the officer says in the report. “As soon as I started to walk away, she drove southbound across Sherman Ave. The intersection was still filled with people that she had to drive around to avoid”/Keith Cousins, Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.