Plenty of criticism for everyone involved. Yeah, they may have the legal right to open carry in a sheep pasture. That doesn’t make it a good idea. Way to set up a confrontation or a tragedy.
The cops need to learn the law and obey it regarding gun rights and video recording. As to the chief, how typically elitist for a senior employee of the people. Without looking at the video, I just know he wears the four stars of a General.
A pox on them.
TC
They kept recording, answered questions, stood on solid ground, were not disrespectful and the cops had NOwhere to go but ... "Have a nice day, guys."
LOVE it.
Here is the first article. The new media beat the MSM by four days. In fact the Milwaukee Journal links to this article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3064760/posts
It is the clearest case of conspiracy to violate constitutional rights I have seen. Everything is on the tape. One officer brags about violating the First Amendment. The Seventh Circuit has ruled that taping police officers is a First Amendent right. He confiscates the video camera, and later brags to his buddies “This ain’t going on on YouTube!”
If they have the right, they have the right.
It might be a bad idea for me to drive my convertable in the rain with the top down, but I shouldn’t get stopped by the police for doing it.
But this is different? How? Because people felt threatened?
Why did they feel threatened? Because its not normal for people to carry guns in public? OK, so let them get used to it, then it will be normal behavior, and the people calling the police about it will be dismissed out of hand, just the same as I would be ignored if I called 911 and said, “A big bald guy wearing leather and covered in tatoos just walked into McDonalds!”
Guns are everywhere, it is not reasonable for people to be frightened just because they see them.