What is this, the land of kirisute gomen?
Screw that.
The officer was wrong to try and force the person to leave, but you don’t touch an officer if you don’t want to get shot.
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>> “but you don’t touch an officer if you don’t want to get shot.” <<
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I know that you know what would become of you if you shot someone for touching you.
Tru dat. At the linked site, the state police showed what they categorized as a “snippet” of the video from one of the trooper's vehicle. So I hope we, at some point, see the whole video. And not just the video from one trooper's car, but that from both vehicles. And by "whole" I mean from the time each trooper arrived on site until things were completely resolved. (
In the “snippet”, the trooper on the left seemed (at least to me) to be highly jacked up while the other trooper seemed to be calm. At one point, while repeatedly telling the stranded motorists to get out of the water, that trooper reached down and “checked” his holstered service weapon.
The officer was wrong to try and force the person to leave, ...
From what I saw in the video, the “force” was nothing more than verbal commands.
Can't have it both ways - if the cop gets to murder whomever touches him under any conditions, then you can't say he was wrong to try to force the person to leave. Because if he tried to force the person to leave, and the force, the duress, he used against a free human being made that free human being believe he had to touch the cop to get him to stop using that force, then, because at that that moment that person was not longer a free human being, but deserving of immediate, summary execution under any and all conditions for touching his holiness the cop, it is impossible - utterly, completely impossible - for that cop to be wrong. The right to shoot somebody dead and be protected by the law in doing so, means the law says you are not wrong. So as cops can kill anyone dead at any time for making them feel afraid even if they are oppressing people, even if they are touching people, especially if someone touches them back, then therefore, under the law, cops are never wrong. Never. Wrong. By Law. So save your life and the life of a loved one by getting that through your head - because that is the actual law in America. That is the argument the cops lawyers make when they win - and they win every time. Cops can kill you whenever they want. Period. End of discussion. And the fact that they would want to kill you means that you had it coming - or they wouldn't want to kill you. That's the law, that's the argument their lawyers make for them, and that's the argument the Courts accept as valid. And thinking otherwise is resisting arrest.