Posted on 06/16/2020 7:46:18 AM PDT by rktman
Atlanta police arrived at Wendy's in response to a 911 call about a man passed out in a drive-through lane. When the first officer arrived on scene, Officer Brosnan, he observed that the vehicle in question had the motor running and that the driver was indeed passed out or sleeping. It took the officer multiple attempts to wake the driver. Ofc. Brosnan then asked the driver to move his car out of the drive-through lane and to park it in a parking spot.
As the driver was attempting to park, he drove over the curb in front of the parking spot and had to back up to move off. The officer also observed the driver as groggy, heard a slurred speech, smelled an odor of alcohol coming from the vehicle, observed watery eyes, and noted the driver's confusion. These are all evidentiary indicators of intoxication.
Ofc. Brosnan asked the driver for his driver's license and detained him for a DUI investigation.
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Apparently there's no such thing as justified use of force in certain circumstances. What if the perp had obtained the LEO's service weapon instead of the taser? Unarmed does NOT mean undangerous.
people are murdered by “bare hands” all the time
If he had successfully tased the officer, he could have taken his gun.
Had the officer allowed himself to be tazed, the perp would certainly have had his loaded gun, and it would have been lights out for the officer and his partner. Completely justified.
This incident is all the fault of Mothers Against
Drunk Driving. Guy blew a 0.1. 25 years ago he wouldn’t have been arrested. The arrest is where this all went crazy! j/k-sort of.
"But, but, HE SHOT HIM IN THE BACK!"
I believe I read that he missed a court hearing in February. That means he had a warrant out for his arrest. ( I watch COPS so I know a thing or two about the law) He did not want to go back to prison and fought like hell to get away. He lost.
YES!!!
If you struggle with a cop who is trying to arrest you, there is a high probability that you will end up dead. Every school kid should be taught that.
Stop resisting arrest and the number of incidents of cops killing someone will drop dramatically.
Yea. I am amazed watching Cops and LivePD how many people have open active warrants and know it. Many are traffic tickets(fines) and they resist arrest and turn it into a felony jackpot. Defies logic. Of course there are some that have felony warrants out for serious crimes.
Quietly——Psssstttt! Don’t try to pass counterfeit $20s and you’ll be okay. I heard that someplace.
“...the perp would certainly have had his loaded gun...”
Not if the cop had a good retention holster. Also, there was a second cop right there.
If he gotten away he could have tazed and done anything he wanted to all kinds of unsuspecting people with his new toy.
Maybe police all over North America need to simply stand down and/or not even respond for the next six months, when the perp is African American, and see what happens to society.
Said from the beginning, the cop did nothing wrong.
Except for the fact the policeman had a partner who would have stopped that from happening.
Milwaukee Wisconsin does not enforce drivers insurance or licenses or even having plates on a vehicle. No penalty, no compliance, total disregard for traffic rules - passing on the right shoulder- OK; exiting the freeway from the far left lane to the exit on the right across 3 lanes of traffic at 75 mph - OK; passing from right and pulling in front of a car with inches to spare front and back at 85mph - OK. New expensive pickups immune to speeding laws.
Like the crooks don’t know how to operate a retention holster.
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