I think it is relevant. Do you think the people in D.C. mind cooperating with police on this half as much as people who are breaking out in hives about it here? I don't. My guess is they want this solved, and they want it solved yesterday - and the vast majority of them are no doubt eager to do whatever they can to help the police get the job done.
I have no problem with what you describe here. But then you add guns drawn, handcuff me, put me on the asphalt...I have problems. I also have inalienable rights and (assuming we still live under the rule of law-big assumption these days) I have civil rights under the law.
Why is that man in the photograph cuffed and on the asphalt - do you know?
I'm guessing he was a smart-ass who probably said something to the cops, such as "You're not gonna look in the trunk are you? Cuz there's nothing in the trunk. No drugs. No guns. No dead bodies...."
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You just can't break out of your emotionalism on this can you? Since when does the law sway to the feelings of the people? It doesn't matter what the people of D.C. feel either. I'm sure a lot of them are now wishing it were legal to be armed there but it's against the law. Sucks don't it?
Not for sure, do you? The premise of the thread is that he was stopped for driving a white van and it might be possible, although no one knows, that the killer drives a white van. No arrests were made so he obviously wasn't the killer or any other wanted criminal.