Posted on 08/19/2014 11:37:57 AM PDT by Rusty0604
"If you don't want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground," warns Officer Sunil Dutta of the Los Angeles Police Department, "just do what I tell you."
The thing is, Officer Dutta (pictured) is also an Adjunct Professor of Homeland Security and Criminal Justice at Colorado Technical University. And he uttered those words not in the heat of the moment, but in an opinion piece in the Washington Post responding to widespread criticism of police attitudes and tactics currently on display in Ferguson, Missouri, but increasingly common nationwide.
Dutta continues:
Don't argue with me, don't call me names, don't tell me that I can't stop you, don't say I'm a racist pig, don't threaten that you'll sue me and take away my badge. Don't scream at me that you pay my salary, and don't even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?
Dutta actually comes off as a reasonable law enforcement officer...He endorses the use of body cameras and dashcams to record interactions between police and the public. He counsels, "you don't have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to search your car or home if there's no warrant."
And yet he demands unresisting submission to police without argument or even legal protest. Just how do you "refuse consent to search your car or home" without running afoul of the no-nos Dutta warns may get you "shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground"?
Remember, this is a thoughtful police officer, with a PhD., who teaches criminal justice.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
What part of “curfew” and “disperse” is not understood?
“this is a thoughful police officer...” Nope. Just a pig.
Heh heh.
In other words, mo matter how big a JBT, thug with a badge, donut munching dog shooting SOB he is...
Do what he says! Do what he says!
I don’t think he was talking about a riot situation.
What was initially an ever so slow inching along closer to the police state keeps picking up speed and is now lazily galloping along....
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I just pinged you 4 seconds later. I knew you would “appreciate” this thread.
the Library of Congress has its own SWAT team as do 53 different federal agencies.
Too many cops are willing to beat you, taze you, throw you to the ground and even shoot you if you don’t appear to be groveling sufficiently.
Americans to both our great credit and frequent frustration just don’t like being told what to do. If it’s a policeman telling us to do as we are told....it’s our choice as to the consequences
I think you should do the opposite of what you are told by this guy.
“you don’t have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to search your car or home if there’s no warrant.”
These two sentences include so many footnotes and conditions that they are meaningless. Especially about “warrantless searches”, “no knock searches”, “exigency searches”, “anonymous informant” and “secret government surveillance” searches, “dog authorized searches”, and “illegal search but still admissible in court” searches.
That’s what Mike Brown thought. Look where it got him.
Appreciate it.
“Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?”
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