Posted on 08/04/2015 12:22:26 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
Citizen seems to notice a police officer driving around and around his neighborhood while he is working on his boat in his driveway.
Police officer doesn't like being filmed by someone in his own yard and decides to stop and pull gun on him.
It wasn’t unprofessional, it was an act of tyranny which should be a capital offence. May one of Obama’s sons fix this situation.
I would say the cop’s approach was questionable, but the other guy’s refusal to show his hands was clearly over the line.
I was sort of with the guy up until then, but once he did that it put the whole situation in a totally different light for me. Made him seem like a nutcase and made me wonder if the cop saw something (we can’t see what he was seeing) to make him feel he needed to unholster his pistol.
Refusing to show your hands is a deal breaker for me.
From that point on, I thought the cop showed a lot of restraint (perhaps too much for his own safety) by backing off. I was expecting him to yell “Show me your hands or I will shoot!” or something along those lines.
The cop should have been killed for exiting his vehicle with a gun drawn and being belligerent. Only a dead cop stops being a tyrant.
I predict this video will get hundreds of thousands of hits.
Btw, I just noted on YouTube alone, it went from like 310 hits to nearly 1,500 in just a few minutes.
LOL!
Mainly the cop.
These guys are a bit like two dogs walking down the street. You looking at me? No you looking at me? Dog fight.
Pulling the gun was nuts.
Everything is above your pay grade. The stupid among us just need to shut up and do as they are told.
There seems quite a lot of things above your pay grade. Like common sense.
“you become the primary ahole in the situation”
Wrong. The primary a-hole is the cop exiting his vehicle with his gun drawn. He is the armed aggressor. Cops are not automatically the good guys. If I had a gun, and I usually do, I would have shot the cop as an armed aggressor. The uniform changes nothing for me.
But who the heck stands in front of their house to film a cop driving by?
Well said.
Bump for later
“I would say the cop’s approach was questionable, but the other guy’s refusal to show his hands was clearly over the line.”
Really? One person in the situation had a gun drawn, the other only had his hands in his pockets, yet you find the guy without the gun is “clearly over the line”??
I don’t know what makes you so stupid, but it really works!
Do we not have a right to be armed on our own property anymore? So what if I may have a weapon in my pocket, in my driveway? It’s none of the cop’s business, unless he has a damn warrant.
Citizen inadvertently initiated subsequent confrontation by “brandishing” camera at “bored" cop.
Cop then showed “insensitivity" to the involuntary shot of adrenaline that “bored” citizens making videos of “bored” cops are going to experience as a consequence of cops pulling their guns.
Adrenaline-pumped citizen then showed “insensitivity” to cop by refusing to show hand.
> a nut trying to cause trouble
Like getting out of a car and drawing a gun on somebody, that kind of nut?
You would have received the death penalty or life without parole for murdering a police officer.
There was a time, not so long ago, when I'd have thought you were a paranoid nut case.
Now, I think you are absolutely right!
1. Am I also paranoid?
2. Has the police state evolved so rapidly?
3. Was the police state always this bad, but I was just naive?
“But who the heck stands in front of their house to film a cop driving by? “
Considering the cop was an armed maniac, it seems everyone should be recording the police. They might jump out of their vehicles with their guns drawn and threaten people. Someone should get that on video.
COP:"Pull your hand out of your pocket! FREEZE!" Blam Blam Blam.
Police Capt.:"Why did you shoot?"
COP: "He pulled his hand out of his pocket too fast And I felt my life was in danger."
Police Capt.: "OK good Job. at least you will make it home tonight safely..."
He’s on his own property, doing nothing wrong. The police have no reason to even instigate an interaction with him, much less to start giving him orders. They certainly aren’t lawful orders, so he has no obligation to obey them.
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