Posted on 10/28/2013 8:59:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Edited on 10/28/2013 9:45:58 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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A California Highway Patrol officer and another emergency responder stop a vehicle at a checkpoint near the neighborhood where a federal immigration officer was shot and three local police officers were wounded during a violent confrontation with a suspect in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Randall Benton)
Officer, you are pointing that gun at me and I feel threatened. Please point it away from me.
You’re resisting arrest. You have the right....
The USA stopped being a nice place to live in a few years ago. I don’t know how long ago. It’s nice to think that it’s the land of the free and all that bullfeathers, but it’s not. No more.
How do you explain this to an very elderly man who has always respected the police and would never resist them? I’m thinking of one person in particular and you don’t need to know anything more about him. How do you tell him that the police now assume you’re going to fight with them, and assume that your TV remote or hedgeclipper is a gun? How do you explain that his partial deafness is a big problem - that if he doesn’t obey the order right away he will be shot? He was always comfortable around the police. How does anyone explain this to him?
The cop pointing the rifle at the guy’s face needs to face both civil and criminal penalties.
“If you can’t handle that situation with less aggressive force than our soldiers in an active war zone...”
Right! The only time I had an M4 pointed in my face was when I mistakenly rolled past the stop sign going into the Embassy complex in the IZ in Iraq one morning in 2005.
My ID had bounced off the rearview mirror and I was bent over, trying to pick it up off the floor and the truck rolled forward past the ‘Stop, Wait To Be Called Forward’ sign. I was in an unmarked civilian pickup truck behind the last vehicle in an American military convoy. Ie, fitting the profile of a VBIED. When I came up with my ID only one Marine guard was visible the others had popped behind the blast barriers. The Marine was red-faced and screaming something about the “right to shoot you” and all. He kept saying it over and over.
I dunno it was 6am-ish and I was returning from an equipment pickup in the IZ. Hadn’t even had my first cup of coffee. It was a bad time for both of us.
The original story made it sound like she was literally outside the WH. But, scores of barricades had been erected to shut DC down, and I have read that she was actually anywhere from one to two miles away (but the press called it the “WH barricades”). It was during all the confusion over the partial shut-down.
I disagree that Americans can be gunned down by the government simply for being confused in a new city and possibly being bad drivers. She might have thought she was being carjacked, as strangers rammed guns toward her.
Neck tattoos are rarely a sign for an employable person.
Omg...! :O
Neck tattoos are typically a sign, for me, at least, to get away from where ever I am that any such person is...
I pulled up to a light a few weeks back to a car full of neck and face tattoos. (driving around in 110 degrees with no air, windows down).
I made sure to slow my speed down and get several cars behind and away form them.
This IS life in Amerika. I am really starting to wonder if I am going to miss the off ramp if I wait much longer to abort mission and GTFO.
It’s that fat guy in the back with his rifle at lefty port arms that spooks me——he thinks it’s a donut shake down. He could go beezerk at the smell of powdered sugar. At least CHIPS Boy doesn’t have his finger on the trigger and I can’t even see a magazine——Is the rifle even loaded?
I’ve reflected on that. I was in an up-armored F-250 which is supposedly of some protection. Not that I’d like to have tested that. The scary part to me was seeing how everyone had taken cover. It’s just not the kinda stuff you need before coffee.
So just what does Kiwi taste like, anyways?
Nice to know we are at least as free as war-torn Nigeria.
I’m very comforted.
There is no justification for sticking this gun in the guys face, mouthing off and failure to show ID(which isn't against the law BTW, unless there is probable cause to ask for it)are NOT killing offenses. Get a frickin' brain or just go away. Your comments are making me sick to my stomach.
If you look closely you will note he is holding rifle sideways, in the manner of a gang banger. Makes it hard to determine if he has a magazine in or not, but I believe he does.
Well duh! That way muzzle climb can take out John Candy on the other side of the car!
The officer violated #2 and #4!
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