Thank you for replying. I know most LEO’s are good cops. I may even know that better than you do.
My son is a deputy sheriff, and has been president of his FOP, he is involved with state and national FOP. That being said, my son is every bit as ‘conservative’ as I am. And he doesn’t pull punches when dealing with ‘grievances’. He is not afraid to slap a fellow LEO when it is necessary,
I have had many encounters with LEO’s for many reasons. Most have been more than reasonable. When they aren’t, as in the case of this skyway arrest, I see them as unreasonable. I will not support the bad cops. I will support the good cops.
In Ohio the sheriff is the highest police authority in the state. The Ohio Highway Patrol gas authority on state highways and state lands (parks and such). My son, as a deputy sheriff, has authority anywhere in the state.
He has had encounters with the highway patrol, and ‘won’. They are sometimes ‘bad’ LEO’s. Some city LEO’s are also ‘bad’ LEO’s.
The majority of the LEO’s out there are good cops. But not all.
I refrain from coming down on the side of the LEO’s when I see stuff like the St Paul case.
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i tend to agree, in this case, from what we’ve been told, it sure doesn’t seem to reflect well on the local LEOs. but it also seems that the local rent-a-cop started it by coming up to the guy, sitting on an unmarked bench telling him that that he isn’t allowed to sit on that particular bench. sure sounds like rousting to me. i wouldn’t have gotten up either.
i was once threatened with arrest for parking alongside the curb at 0300. i was told that that area just happened to be a no parking zone. no signs, no yellow curb, etc..i told them to go ahead and tow my car, and we’ll see how the lawyers handle it in the morning.
by sundown the next day, there were signage, and yellow paint on the curb that remain to this day.
you can’t enforce a restriction without reasonable notice