Posted on 04/15/2015 5:29:36 AM PDT by Whenifhow
A few years ago, the local police put their ACTUAL tank in a 4th of July parade.
I and several others loudly booed them as they went by,
and yelled “why do you need that?”
The tank has not made its re-appearance in the parade.
We have one. They brought it out when we had a shooter loose near campus. I liked the fact that it was literally between me and the shooter.
It was really just a joke about a line I heard once in a movie. I thought the term was notable.
The point of all this is that this deputy’s follow-up reason (then purported to be the primary reason as the ‘verbal beatdown’ continued), was all BS. They saw nothing, could not, nor ever prove anything regarding it.
The two Rambos didn’t like getting flipped off and they used their status to oppress the driver. Simple and plain.
Years ago a friend of mine, Iowa State Highway Patrol, was flipped off by a guy in a car. Lights flash, guy gets pulled over. This friend goes up to the car and the guy tells the trooper that there is nothing he can do about it. Trooper takes the guy to the count courthouse (20 minute drive), gets a judge there (I think it was a weekend), and the judge agrees with the guy, there is nothing the trooper can do to the guy. Trooper takes him back to his car and apologizes, tells the guy he was right, there is nothing he can do. About 2 hours total expired...and the driver probably didn’t flip off troopers anymore.
For the most part, this trooper was a great guy. He would pull you over for speeding/whatever, give your kids coloring books and stickers and such. Killed ya with kindness, but you didn’t want to be on his bad side.
He told the story, I don’t know if it was true or not. But I never go out of my way to find the bad side of a cop...
In all fairness, Gainesville does need a fairly high level reaction force. Aside from the fact they have a major University with a hugely popular sports program, they also have a full bore nuclear reactor run by precisely *one* person.
I was making a joke.
Turns out this guy and I have two mutual friends on FB. Small world.
Cops driving around in tanks freaks me out a little, especially considering who is in the WH.
Yeah.... typical cops. I’d sell their “tank” and put them in blue shirts after they did about 3 years of desk duty.
:: they really stopped him because he flipped them off. ::
First Amendment protection?
It’s not illegal anywhere. It’s protected speech under the 1st amendment.
Understood. What freaks me out is the extraordinary measures some LE departments go to up-armor, self-protect and arm themselves with military quality accoutrements.
Ostensibly to react to things like terror in the public and all that, but the quickest way to stop terror in the public is to not stigmatize private ownership and carry of weapons for self protection. Israel doesn’t seem to have problems with conventional civilians being armed.
These people treat us (civilian public) like enemies of whom to be afraid and must protect themselves (only, I might add) from us.
The problem lies in the disturbing lack of psychological screening of its officers, IMO.
Officer said [paraphrased ] “I don’t know anything about no supreme court case or anything like that, I stopped you because you made an improper hand signal [that was quick diversionary thinking, IMO BTW]....”
He then goes onto say [paraphrased] “...the real reason we stopped you was because the young woman looked like she was giving you a BJ....”
Which one is it?
That is what the badge worshipers, the bootlickers, and the worship of authority fail to see. Or deny one of the other. The results are the same.
The Supreme Court ruled that LE is not required to protect the public from anything. Only to the extent that their prime directive, to enforce the law, comports with it does protection of the citizenry come into play.
The extended inquiry should be: “Are either actions and/or ‘hand-signals’ a violation of the local municipal code, officer?”
But, that would require the driver taking time off from work, appearing in court and successfully arguing on his own behalf (or have a lawyer).
That is why I would advocate requesting the judge find in the plaintiff’s favor “with prejudice” such that the plaintiff can then request court-censure of the officer and damages from the municipality for time and expenses.
Granted, over-worked judges would not grant it but there is no other way to reign in these SpecOps wannabees. Each such request should make them shiver in their skivvies.
i agree.. iirc in CT the case was ‘state vs. gamache’...gamache is a longtime friend of mine. this happenned in the 70’s.
I take it your friend didn’t take an oath to uphold and defend the constitutions of his state or the United States.
If he did, he knowingly violated that oath. To you and him, it’s a cute story on how to forcibly punish someone for something they KNOW to be constitutionally protected speech, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT WE AGREE WITH THAT SPEECH.
To me it is treason and no less than the behavior the British used to use on the King’s subjects in the colonies. I wouldn’t engage in that type of behavior and I would chastise anyone who did. I wouldn’t waste my integrity on “punishing” them either.
IMO, oppressive authority goons need to be challenged at every level.
Neither! It was a Lewinsky!
So, it’s illegal to have sex in a moving vehicle? I don’t have sex in a moving vehicle, so I don’t know. I actually don’t have sex in vehicles. Is it still legal to have sex? Or is faggot sex all that’s allowed? Cause if the people in question were queers I’ll bet the whole thing would have turned out differently. The pigs would have just kept going.
This was a chilling video, all of it was about the cops acting as gang members and show how much they are just living out their own personalities out in the world, this was about getting this guys mind right and had nothing to do with laws or traffic, this was purely personal egos trying to intimidate, and cower a citizen.
This time that they took off from work for personal business should result in punishment and letting them know that there is a question of whether they should remain in police work at all since they clearly have personality issues that make them a threat to the public.
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