To: Lurker
I don't see it that way at all. As a fireman, can I run into your house and physically remove you from it? Cops have the ability to make you move away from a location in certain circumstances.
I would have said something like, "Sure you can film! Just do it while you're walking away from this area, which is now a crime scene. Or did you want to be taken to the station house to be interviewed over then next several hours about what you saw here and your phone taken as evidence?"
The public wants all the bad guys off the streets and all the crimes solved. But they don't realize it's not an episode of Law & Order and bystanders get hurt all the time.
Again, let me say, this cop is an idiot. Don't accuse me of defending him.
17 posted on
02/27/2014 7:15:19 AM PST by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: thefactor
You just did defend him. This cop is now a felon. Did you even read the Statute I cited?
33 posted on
02/27/2014 8:01:31 AM PST by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: thefactor
no, you are merely defending the tactics used...
39 posted on
02/27/2014 8:50:08 AM PST by
joe fonebone
(a socialist is just a juvenile communist)
To: thefactor
I think what law enforcement does not publicly state, but wholly realizes (hence the escalating militarization), is the following:
Citizens no longer trust law enforcement.
Citizens no longer respect law enforcement.
Citizens now actively despise law enforcement.
They have overwhelming reason. And law enforcement brought it on itself. It put toys and self-congratulatory testosterone over the Republic.
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