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To: MrB
If he was “polite and asked her numerous times just to” take her clothes off, would that be OK?

That's an asinine comparison, and if you don't know that, you are beyond help. In any situation where safety is an issue, the police have a right to take reasonable steps to secure the scene. It doesn't matter that she was on her property - she was close enough to the cops to make her a potential threat. If the cops come into your home to ask you some questions, they may ask you to not go into another room without an officer present - to prevent you from coming back with a gun. That is not unreasonable.

She was asked to move back or go inside to ameliorate that perceived threat. She refused. Should she have been arrested? Probably not, but she probably should have been taken aside by one of the officers and her movements restricted to insure the safety of the officers until they were done with their arrest of the suspect.

54 posted on 06/28/2011 2:34:42 PM PDT by CA Conservative
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To: CA Conservative

“she was close enough to the cops to make her a potential threat.”

Then why didn’t the cop say this in the first place? “I’m gonna need everyone to step back, please.”

But no, his first words were “You guys (note: plural) need something?”

She said she was recording, and it was her right (which it is).

“Not from the sidewalk it isn’t,” She steps back. “This is my yard.”

The cop has nothing to say, and walks away. Then after giving it some thought, he decides he “feels threatened.” But the other cops don’t and one keeps his back to him.

It’s bogus. Are you not even allowing for the POSSIBILITY that this cop was being Billy Badass, and wanted to save face in front of his cop buddies?


59 posted on 06/28/2011 2:41:53 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: CA Conservative

From this post, clearly you didn’t even bother to watch the video.

Your non sequitor arguments are a waster peoples time.

Califorinia is a lost cause.


172 posted on 06/28/2011 4:45:33 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought ("The proposition that the government is always right is manifested either in corruption or benefits)
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