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To: driftdiver

“If you or I shot her under those conditions we would be up for murder.”

And that is as it should be. Policemen, however, have a broader spectrum of authority. They can require you to stop. Not ask; require.


73 posted on 01/17/2014 10:47:53 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
And that is as it should be. Policemen, however, have a broader spectrum of authority.

And here I thought that authority demanded responsibility. Yet you are using authority as an excuse to not hold him to the standards that those "under his authority" are.

93 posted on 01/17/2014 11:10:08 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: dsc

“And that is as it should be. Policemen, however, have a broader spectrum of authority. They can require you to stop. Not ask; require.”

yes they can, however they can’t shoot you just for not stopping.


99 posted on 01/17/2014 11:26:19 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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