Posted on 02/01/2015 5:15:54 PM PST by conservative98
A video posted online reportedly shows a Westchester cop pointing his gun at two males who were having a snowball fight last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I want to hear the cop say he was in fear for his life.
OMG!!! Assault snowballs!!!!!
Bah! Humbug!
My 80+ year old father calls these “Police Officers”... Bullies in Uniform.
I read the article and it’s states that the ‘Officer’ was searching for an ‘unidentified gunman’ and wanted to frisk the snowballers.
The article also mentions a similar incident from several years ago that ended up with a settlement payment of $60K to the young men in that incident.
I wouldn’t get too excited about that 30 seconds of video, until the 911 call transcript is released.
The original call to the police supposedly involved a gun, and a male that was chased by these cops, but wasn’t apprehended.
One snow day Pete and I were off from school. We had a pretty good volley going; the snow was perfect for snowballs. A cop car idled by, came to a stop and the cop got out. We two ten year-olds were challenged to a snowball fight.
To this day I assert we won but the point was, cops then weren’t so obsessed with being badass MF’ers and actually knew their neighborhoods and the people who lived in them.
Of course, this was back in the Mesolithic so none of it matters now.
Doesn't say anyone was chased by these cops.
There was a call about a man with a gun. Cop goes on a search and drives up to teens having a snowball fight. Cop pulls gun on teens.
also the other guys in the area of the encounter complied with police orders and were later released without being charged.
There is more than one article on the event.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/westchester-pulls-gun-teens-snowball-fight-article-1.2099426
A video that appears to catch a New Rochelle police officer pointing a gun at a group of teenagers who were having a snowball fight — and went viral on the Internet — is not what it appears to be, cops said.
“There was no snowball fight,” New Rochelle Deputy Police Commissioner Anthony Murphy told the Daily News, calling the video a piece of “clever mischief.”
He said police were responding to a 911 call around 4 p.m. Friday that a teenager standing in a group of six near the Heritage Houses had pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it at another person.
“We dispatched several cars to the area. Police officers got out of their cars and one of the individuals bent down, adjusted something in his waistband and ran,” Murphy said.
As one officer took off after the suspect, another remained with the five teens who did not run, Murphy said.
“Don’t f-——g move, guys,” the cop shouts in one of two clips that were sent to the Talk of the Sound.
Two teens can be seen in the video kneeling with their hands in the air. The officer frisks both of them before ordering them to stand up.
“The group was compliant,” Murphy said. “(At the same time) the other cop is in foot pursuit of the suspect that had the gun. The suspect runs into an apartment house and into an unknown apartment.”
It matters now as a nice memory of what was and still is...occasionally. Thanks for sharing it.
Just where were those guns when we reported the teen girls
trying to TP the neighborhood trees?
I never have any luck with cops. They’re always right and I’m always wrong.
Good judgment has never been a criteria for law enforcement employment.
I grew up in NYC, and several of us, friends and family, girls and boys, were having a rock fight in my local park with some other kids from the next block...and a young red-headed cop came by and slapped his baton into his hand a few times and told us he was going to “club youse guys” unless we stopped right then and there. We did.
Later he came by when we were sitting around on the stoop and told us that this was stupid behavior and we shouldn’t be doing it...which of course, we all knew. And he told the same thing to the “other side.”
Pulling a gun was probably the only way to get attention. The billy club got my attention, but that was 50 years ago...
The snowball obviously had a bullet in its center.
So the fact that someone was reported exercising their constitution rights to have a gun is reason for a cop to pull out his gun and start searching people randomly in that area? Sure the cops there might sell non-thinker that the video is ok because someone somewhere sometime maybe had a gun. Me not so much.
I'm sorry but if you draw a gun on people having a snowball fight, then you should be immediately fired and removed as danger to the public. Furthermore you should probably go to jail.
I can promise you most people in every walk of life people had a snowball fight at one time or another. Idiots!
He feared for his authority. Good shoot!
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