Horrifying moment cops drew guns on husband and PREGNANT wife

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 9/25/2015 | Chris Spargo

[sport]

That is what they are supposed to do. That is what the policemen would have done when I was younger.

[CodeToad]

“stop, you’re making me laugh LOL”

Stupid little kids usually just giggle at life and think things are a joke. Cops and little kids do that.

[sport]

Someone is making the moderator[s] work overtime deleting posts.

[556x45]

LOL, that was a ‘welcome to 2nd grade’ type post...very clever.

[moehoward]

So who has the settlement pool?

I’m guessing $20M.

[tioga]

Prayers for this family to heal and grow in love and joy. Prayers, also, for the crazy cops who spoiled a joyful event forever.

[Farmer Dean]

What would the pool be if there had been complications in the birth and the baby died due to the delay in reaching the hospital?Or loss the mother?
These cops are so lucky.

[dragnet2]

“My wife is having a baby”

“We don’t give a s**t get down”

LOL!

[moehoward]

"…..if ….. the baby died…….."

In that event I'd have to revise my guess to $1 or 2M tops. Unfortunately dead kids don't typically equate to high damage awards. Since the kid survived, there's three plaintiffs. Cha-Ching!

[dragnet2]

You got it. They’re not doing themselves any favors. As of now, 99+ percent of America is not a combat war zone nor are Americans the enemy. For their sake they better pray it remains that way.

[old gringo]

1% of cops have the piles the rest are perfect assholes.

[Professional Engineer]

What is wrong with these people? They should be thankful we did not shoot them, and yet they are complaining. Man, they just don’t know how tough this job is.

I'm sure you meant the is wrong with these cops.

These are citizens, with God given rights. Not subjects required to bootlick the local shire reeve for not shooting them that day.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

That was bad and an example of very poor, heartless judgement.

[HiTech RedNeck]

envy much?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yer buddy!

[sport]

It was meant as sarcasm and it was intended to portray the cops thoughts toward the Citizen. In this day and time, police officers that treat the Citizen are in a tiny minority. Almost non existence.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

They seem to continuously forget that regardless of their training and tactics and equipment and attitude and budgets and military vehicles... that they are not prepared to operate on an even-force basis.

 

They don't have the cohesion of a military unit - nor should they. Some of those guys don't seem to realize that their job effectiveness utterly relies on cooperative citizens. As has been repeatedly demonstrated, if the population were to go feral, there's no way to cope with that.

 

 

[zeugma]

Thanks for posting the decision itself. It's always useful given how poor such things are reported through the media.

Here's an interesting slap down of the officers from the opinion:
Even if the unconstitutionality of the alleged conduct was not clearly established through case law, the violation was so obvious “a reasonable state actor would know that his actions violated the Constitution.” Siebert, 256 F.3d at 654. The likely reason why there are so few analogous cases (Williams is the only factually similar case this Court has found), is that police officers know better than to detain, arrest, and jail someone in these sorts of circumstances.

In other words, cases with these particular circumstances don't come up often because most cops are smart enough to know that you don't detain a woman in labor.