I look at a person in a situation like this as a patriotic hero. Exposing the evil thuggish behavior is our only chance retaining our freedom.
A sidewalk is meant to carry foot traffic. It isn’t meant to be set up as a kitchen, with a stove with outside temperatures of hundreds of degrees exposed to passers by. It sets up a situation where someone could get seriously burned.
It’s a reasonable law.
A complaint was made and the officer responded.
What would you suggest?
Would it be better to allow the grill there and have some kid’s face get shoved up against it by accident when several groups tried to pass at the same time?
Patriotic? You have no idea how this officer approached the woman, and yet here you are slamming all police based on the incident. That’s just nutter territory,
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system.”
Quote by: Ayn Rand
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3