[cva66snipe]

The cops lost my support the moment they used plain clothes officers to approach the suspected women. It doesn't take 6-7 cops to do an under age drinking bust. One officer wearing correct patrol uniform would have sufficed and the incident would have been avoided and resolved in less than two minutes. Had she held up a store that is cause for a weapon to be drawn. Otherwise for something like this it should have stayed secured in the officers holster. College areas are notorious for male on female attacks. What were these cops thinking?

I shared an apartment off ship in Norfolk. Everyone knew all too well how Virgina was on alcohol especially beer of all things. If you were on your porch drinking a beer the cops would invite themselves onto your property to arrest you. Buying the beer was legal as was stronger drink. But you had to go inside your house and hide from LEO eyes to drink it. However if you walked past an officer smoking a joint they likely wouldn't notice it or care. That was over 30 years ago.

[apoliticalone]

I find the overkill that has become typically SOP by LE, even dealing with non-violent crime as particularly threatening to a society that pays them to protect and serve, not run ram-shod.

The public is being treated as a threat when it isn’t. Overreaction such as breaking down doors in the middle of the night (sometimes at wrong addresses) by SWAT over non-violent offenses creates an unnecessary threat to the public and cops.

Those who cross over the line need to be held accountable.