Read the comments--The freeper mob here is vociferously demanding this cop be personally sued and fired over this petty incident. This behavior makes me think they basically hate cops and have anti-authority mental issues dating from childhood. I am a realist who recognizes we need police, law and courts to protect the population from criminals and illegal activity.
The sweeping generalizations here are coming from those who try to lump conservatives in with libertarians, and then conflating libertarianism with anarchy-based libertarianism, which no one here is arguing for.
I'll bet most of the know nothings on this thread are anti-cop libertarian types. How about you? You are not a libertarian?
I don’t know if people hate cops. What I’ve seen in the posts for this incident is that some freepers want to punish this one cop for all the sins of all the cops they have ever complained about. Like to make him an example.
I still can’t believe people here actually think this incident is an example of the worst of a police state; so I have to assume they are projecting onto this guy all the real issues they have seen, where cops have shot dogs, beat innocent people, or otherwise acted in a more obviously brutal fashion.
It’s the “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore” response. “TSA is conducting intrusive searches, and we can’t stop them, so let’s go after this cop for stepping on someone’s lawn and expecting them to actually obey what he thought was a reasonable order”.