I wouldn’t be too quick to dump on the responding officers.
This guy may have had a attitude thinking himself to be the top dog on scene. We’ll see how it plays out.
I don’t care who you are, if you brandish in front of officers, you’re messing with fire.
I agree. There aren’t enough details to know what happened here.
“I don’t care who you are, if you brandish in front of officers, you’re messing with fire.”
It’s sad that that’s where we are today. Protect and Serve are long gone and forgotten.
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Well, it WAS his house, so why should he not be top dog?
Oh, I recognize your screen name, your reply makes sense.
Apparently even if you too are an officer.
Honestly? Your words make my blood run cold. And you're probably in LE.
The "top dog" WAS the homeowner.
Hello?
Responding officers are civil frikkin' servants.
I swear to God, DoughtyOne, if yours is the common mindset in law enforcement, then ... all bets are off. A man has a right to come to the door of his house fully armed and "wielding." The homeowner IS THE TOP DOG.
Officer, you forget yourself for the civil servant (not executioner) you are.
Re-reading those words, DoughtyOne.
You wouldn't think of yourself as "top dog" on the scene if it was you?
You call for such disarmed fear and submission to civil servants (cops) returning your loud and disorderly lush wife from the neighbor's? You don't know if they're real cops or what, and they're at your door? But you believe people on their own property have no right to brandish weapons while officers are present, or risk being shot by officers for the sheer temerity of "having an attitude of thinking he was top dog on the scene"??
Man.
Ahh yes, my old home town, lived in Seaside before moving here to Nevada. It was packed with crime back then and its worse now. No mystery why the cops are on edge. When we lived there we lived in a duplex house, the neighbor downstairs became a cop and was sure to tell us never to tell anyone he was a cop and lived there or the gangs would take revenge on our home.