AZ:Police Helicopter and Patrol Cars Dispatched for Man Photographing Courthouse(Open Carry)

photographyisnotacrime.com ^ | 6 August, 2013 | Carlos Miller

[marktwain]

The video is interesting. I would *not* have mentioned a pressure cooker. Still, it is a good illustration of what to expect and how to act.

I give the police pretty good marks for no violence, reasonably polite actions, and no arrest. The site has the video.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Force multiplier at least 25 to 1, or was it more? And the helicopters? Interesting.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Kudos for the calmness. They probably had him ready to pick off at the word, is why.

[GeronL]

Taking a picture of public property or legally carrying a gun... which part of this is illegal?

[JRandomFreeper]

Suspicion of suspiciousness. It's in the code, somewhere....

/johnny

[Halgr]

I disagree with the approach here...what was the guy trying to prove?

I’m not going to open carry even if its legal...why?

Us good guys will be going “gray” soon, no sense painting a bulls-eye on your/our forehead.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Granted it’s just bad form to be rude for rudeness sake. But no, none of it.

[GeronL]

Helicopters are expensive to fly, something like thousands of dollars per hour.

[GeronL]

Someone locally needs to try and demand the city/county justify this expensive use of a helicopter.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Tend to agree... I get tired of drama queening whether it’s the left or the “good guys.” Go make sport somewhere you won’t get some nellies nervous.

[marktwain]

“Us good guys will be going “gray” soon, no sense painting a bulls-eye on your/our forehead.”

Too late. You have already done so by posting the above post.

[JRandomFreeper]

Not everyone wants to lurk in the shadows like cowards. What the guy did was obviously legal. It's good to exersize rights, otherwise, why have them?

/johnny

[GeronL]

Was he being rude? The story before the link doesn’t sound like he was very rude.

[marktwain]

If enough people exercise their rights, lurking becomes unnecessary.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Man, there has to be some happy medium between cowering and gratuitously shocking folks. I don’t think THIS was it.

[flaglady47]

I think this guy is an *sshole for deliberately baiting the police, putting them on guard for no good reason, calling them out unnecessarily, costing taxpayers money, and giving everyone normal who conceals and carries a bad name. This guy is a big, big jerk. And he tempted fate to boot. What an idiot. And to take pics of a courthouse. What kind of a response did he expect? And with so any terrorists lurking out there, the police are sent there on an adrenalin high thinking possible the worst, and all for this double *sshole trying to make some phony point. Makes me sick. What a pukehead.

[JRandomFreeper]

The nervous nellies need to be desensitized to people exersizing their rights in a lawful manner. The over-reactors were in the wrong here, not the guy exersizing his rights.

/johnny

[GeronL]

if you don’ exercise the right, it likely won’t exist long

[HiTech RedNeck]

Once addressed, no. It’s just that he did have reason to know that this was going to get nellies nervous. Is it possible to break it a little more gently to the nellies that they can stop being nervous, than to do something like this???

[gaijin]

I thought he did great, considering that was his first time.

I’m sure he’ll do it again, and I approve 100%.

“Go tell it on the mountain...”

BE the change you want.