[SWAMPSNIPER]

When they come running up yelling and pointing guns like a bunch of barbarians how can you know they are cops?

[RAO1125]

“When they come running up yelling and pointing guns like a bunch of barbarians how can you know they are cops?”

Because they are Federally licensed thugs, as compared to the more common freelance thugs.

[BwanaNdege]

Yea, when you watch these SWAT training exercises on TV, they all come running in the room, yelling & screaming unintelligible mumbo-jumbo after smashing the door down.

I would describe myself as “law & order”, but these SWAT tactics need to be seriously examined. If these guys want to play assault troops, then they should enlist and head to Afghanistan.

In this instance, who would be likely to assume that armed men jumping out of an Escalade would be police? In an Escalade? Yea, right. Who usually drives Escalades?

[Jonah Johansen]

Since all cops are evil and and presumed guilty,I suppose it is absurd to suggest that someone transporting a coke dealer and who goes to such links to evade capture might in fact be the guilty party.

The logic expressed on this thread seems to be- if anyone tries to arrest you, if they claim to be police run then down or shoot them because they are probably not; if they show you badges run them down or shoot them because the badges are probably fake. Why stop there, the uniforms can be fakes, patrol cars could be props, maybe its not even a real police station.

What really confuses me is that I love the FreeRepublic and its posters, I find the site to be a beacon and refuge of rationality,facts and common sense on an internet full of BS, except when it comes to police arrests or raids gone bad and then FR seams to morph into a paranoid anti-law enforcement rants, every encounter between police and citizens is immediately seen as another “Ruby Ridge”.
It may turn out to be as you all speculate, a case of gross police misconduct, but at the moment you have not anything like sufficient evidence to support that conclusion.

[elkfersupper]

When they come running up yelling and pointing guns like a bunch of barbarians how can you know they are cops?

I would rather face the regular sort of gangbangers than the cops.

With the regular kind of gangbangers, there are usually manageable consequences after the event.

The cops can rough you up, kill your dog, feel up your womenfolk, tear your house up, confiscate your property and live to do it another day to somebody else.