“Are you a criminal? You seem to insist on thinking like one, so I wonder.”
You’re posing a hypothetical question. The proper answer to that question depends to a great degree on whether you are a criminal or not. You can pretend it doesn’t, but common sense dictates that it does.
“The cops may suspect that they’re approaching a criminal. They don’t know that they’re approaching a criminal.”
They usually have probable cause to suspect they’re approaching a criminal, and in this case, judging by his reaction, they were probably correct.
“When they’re getting out of plain cars, wearing plain clothes, and pointing guns … to the honest citizen THEY LOOK LIKE CRIMINALS THEMSELVES.”
Maybe to you. You’re assuming they didn’t do the standard things that police would do in this situation, like display badges and identify themselves as police officers. Even the attorney in the article admits he isn’t sure what happened, but you seem to know. Were you an eyewitness?
The same question applies to you. Well?
You're assuming that the plain clothed people getting out of plain cars did the "standard things that police would do", with no justification for assuming that.
You seem to be insisting that the police can do no wrong …
I'm pointing out to you that the police have become their own worst enemies; that their behavior can and does often look criminal.
If the police want to be respected, they need to show some respect. That might reasonably start with looking unmistakably, unambiguously, like police. Plain clothes and plain cars arethe polar opposite of this.
Remember the two jackboot thugs that were charged with murder in the deaths of the older married couple? Were the couple a pair of criminals? No