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Video: Dad Arrested In Front His 6-Year-Old Daughter At The Park For ‘Violating Social Distancing Order’ – The Police Forced To Issue An Apology
Right Journalism ^ | 04.08.2020 | Alex D.

Posted on 04/08/2020 5:11:45 AM PDT by USA Conservative

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To: ronniesgal

“ but come on! Cops need to worry about real crimes.”

Not here in Houston. Our mayor asked all our criminals to”Just chill” during the COVID-19, so we got that going for us.


21 posted on 04/08/2020 5:43:54 AM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: USA Conservative

LEO get really pissed off when you don’t JUMP a mile in the air complying with any ORDER they give you. Many LEO go ballistic very quickly. They expect and demand immediate, unconditional compliance, no matter what. I see this on Live PD all the time. Too many times, I have seen them escalate a situation that was otherwise calm and reasonable, into something where they act in a very heavy hander manner completely uncalled for but for their inciting the situtation. Patience is not the strong suit of many LEO. I guess that is their training these days. Go in hot. Not saying all at all, but too many and too often.


22 posted on 04/08/2020 5:44:01 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: Rebel Egg

*** The anti-chrisy must be very pleased with this test run for global sharia law. ***

Poop Francis sent his thank you to the cops.

Sue the town, the cops, all their FA off once this gets settled.


23 posted on 04/08/2020 5:46:50 AM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: Drango
Whoever wrote in the Police report there were 12-15 people playing softball wrote a fib.

Yeah, I noticed that, too.

How did a guy, his wife and his young daughter morph into a dozen or more people?

Easy.

They lied.

24 posted on 04/08/2020 5:48:18 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Alberta's Child

I’m hearing that our governor in Michigan has issued an order that Zinc can no longer be purchased without a prescription. I don’t know what authority she has that allows this legally, but if possible, I think she should be sued as an individual, not a public figure.


25 posted on 04/08/2020 5:49:17 AM PDT by kevslisababy (I am a Genuine Female: No after market parts.)
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To: USA Conservative
“Falconburg conveyed an apology, however, Mr. Mooney has declined the offer for an in person meeting,” BPD said via email.

Don't worry. You'll hear soon enough from Mr. Money's lawyer for violating his civil rights and false arrest.

26 posted on 04/08/2020 5:51:02 AM PDT by Flick Lives (A liberal is someone who worries that somewhere, someone is enjoying life.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I think the biggest lawsuit should be a worldwide class action lawsuit against China demanding they pay for every penny everyone has spent and lost thanks to their virus.

Throw in some punitive damages, too, for screwing up the lives of every human being on planet earth.


27 posted on 04/08/2020 5:51:35 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: USA Conservative

If I was that father, I would reject any apology and then sue, sue, sue!


28 posted on 04/08/2020 5:55:55 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Sirius Lee
You can add the military to that. We had a one of those G7 (?) meetings a few years back in Pittsburgh. Of the course the usual crazies threatened violent protests. Thousands of national guard came in and locked the city down. What they really did was menace the people who didn't obey the curfews and orders. One reporter went undercover among the protesters during their “riot”. She said there were no more than 2 or 3 dozen of them. The national guard watched as they went down a street smashing windows and defacing property. The guard did nothing to stop it. Afterward when the conference was over, local politicians claimed victory because no one was hurt and the riot wasn't huge.
One small ray of hope was that the only people who challenged the guard and their orders were a group of college students and I was happy to see that the campus police came out to protect the students from the guard.
Sorry for the long post reminiscing but I hate police states.
29 posted on 04/08/2020 6:10:45 AM PDT by Varda
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To: USA Conservative

Mooney told the FOX31 Problem Solvers he refused to provide his identification to three police officers because he was confident he wasn’t doing anything unlawful by playing tee-ball with his wife and daughter at the park.


OK. So they confronted him over the social distancing thing, and were wrong about that - but he was arrested for refusing to identify himself.

The police can demand identification. That’s firmly established.


30 posted on 04/08/2020 6:14:14 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Candor7

Typical of life in Colorado. Lived there for years and left, will never go back.


31 posted on 04/08/2020 6:15:03 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: lepton

Not so. Only if the person has committed, or is about to commit a crime.

http://www.lpdirect.net/casb/crs/16-3-103.html

(1) A peace officer may stop any person who he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a crime and may require him to give his name and address, identification if available, and an explanation of his actions. A peace officer shall not require any person who is stopped pursuant to this section to produce or divulge such person’s social security number. The stopping shall not constitute an arrest.


32 posted on 04/08/2020 6:20:19 AM PDT by abb
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To: chopperk

I liked the old Colorado, before it was inundated and colonized by Californians fleeing earth quake fears.

Spent time up around Red Feather lakes, North West of Fort Collins.

Colorado has really changed for the worse under the Queer Governor Hickenpooper and his weed gang.

I no longer travel to Colorado.


33 posted on 04/08/2020 6:22:27 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: USA Conservative

Cops have become the worst thing in society. Worse even than criminals and politicians.


34 posted on 04/08/2020 6:26:11 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Alas Babylon!

This started because a citizen called in a report... according to the police.

So, did the citizen lie to get them out there?

And 3 four person family units out taking advantage of the recent splendid CO weather would be 12 ppl. But were those 3 families interacting with each other?

I am personally relishing the after actions on this whole debacle. I hope Hobby Lobby and Appliance Factory outlet are well lawyered.


35 posted on 04/08/2020 6:30:28 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Where did you get 3 families???

There was only ONE family there.

The man, his wife and his daughter.

Even the cops are admitting they were wrong.

Why are you making up excuses for them???


36 posted on 04/08/2020 6:33:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: abb

Not so. Only if the person has committed, or is about to commit a crime.


The standard for that is probable cause. In this case the police botched the association with a crime - which is a problem for them - but if they believed it to be a crime, then they have probable cause to meet the criteria for the section you posted.


37 posted on 04/08/2020 6:34:07 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

They didn’t have probable cause. If those cops ‘thought’ they had pc, they’re too stupid to be cops.


38 posted on 04/08/2020 6:37:48 AM PDT by abb
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To: MPJackal

so you have no crimes right now? haha. I think Balto’s mayor begged the youth to stop shooting each other so they could use the beds for COVID.


39 posted on 04/08/2020 6:44:28 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is???? and let's get back to living!!!)
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To: abb

They didn’t have probable cause.


Probable cause is based upon the knowledge available to them at the time, in good-faith. That cuts both ways.

If those cops ‘thought’ they had pc, they’re too stupid to be cops.


Hence the “problem for them”, and the apology.


40 posted on 04/08/2020 6:50:59 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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