[OneWingedShark]

>If you pull a dark object out of a holster when the cops are working, you deserve whatever reaction you get.

I have two problems with this statement:
1 — In the context of this thread, it was an *empty* holster; there was nothing to pull out.
2 — There are holsters speciffically for phones, I’m wearing one now, and my phone is mostly black; should I be shot because some officer merely sees me answer my phone?

[morphing libertarian]

neither of your your two problems has any relationship to what I and the others were disagreeing about. The holster in question was a gun holster. not what the the accessory people call a “case.” for cell phones.

We were discussing a filled holster not the empty one.

I am leaving the thread because I don’t want to spend any more time with every tangential point someone wants to make. When I do, I’ll start my own thread and stay with it.

[from occupied ga]

should I be shot because some officer merely sees me answer my phone?

Happened in Dekalb county at least 10 years ago. Guy was getting a traffic ticket. His phone rang and he answered it. The cop shot him. Fortunately not life threatening. He sued the county and the cop. The case vanished from the media view without a trace, and I have no idea how it turned out.

[from occupied ga]

I searched the web and found this:
Boyd, Rekia Illinois (Chicago)Killed
An off-duty detective rolled down his car window and asked a group of people gathered near Douglas Park to quiet down. In response, police say, a 39-year-old man pointed a gun at the officer, who drew his own weapon and fired. The bullets hit the alleged gunman in the hand and Rekia Boyd, who was unarmed, in the head as she stood nearby. Witnesses said that no one pulled a gun on the off-duty officer, and that the alleged gunman was actually holding a cell phone instead. Rekia Boyd died in the hospital the following day

So not only can you get killed by the police for answering the phone, but anyone around you can be killed too.