Postby Speaker to Animals » Sun May 06, 2018 8:21 pm
Cops do not have special rights.
If you brandish a weapon like that, you should get charged.
And just saying "I'm a police officer" is total bullshit. Anybody can say that and then rob you. A man in plain clothes draws a gun on you, do you not have a self-defense right there?
There actually are several levels of fucked going on with this that have nothing to do with gun control. It's about cops and their attitude that they somehow have these special rights to fuck with people.
Speaker to Animals wrote:Cops do not have special rights.
If you brandish a weapon like that, you should get charged.
And just saying "I'm a police officer" is total bullshit. Anybody can say that and then rob you. A man in plain clothes draws a gun on you, do you not have a self-defense right there?
There actually are several levels of fucked going on with this that have nothing to do with gun control. It's about cops and their attitude that they somehow have these special rights to fuck with people.
I support the right to carry arms for all citizens
Postby Speaker to Animals » Sun May 06, 2018 8:31 pm
nmoore63 wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:Cops do not have special rights.
If you brandish a weapon like that, you should get charged.
And just saying "I'm a police officer" is total bullshit. Anybody can say that and then rob you. A man in plain clothes draws a gun on you, do you not have a self-defense right there?
There actually are several levels of fucked going on with this that have nothing to do with gun control. It's about cops and their attitude that they somehow have these special rights to fuck with people.
I support the right to carry arms for all citizens
And what happens when one of those citizens draws down on you for no valid reason, threatening your life?? Should it fucking matter whether they are a cop or not?
I'd be sympathetic if the cop mistakenly believed a robbery was happening.
Trouble is, the cop's behavior doesn't even fit the (wrong) assumptions he made. Instead of pulling out a gun, he should have pulled out his badge and asked some questions.
Not sure this is a training issue as much as: This is the type of person drawn to police work. If you don't want people that think they're in a hard-boiled cop movie, screen these people out.
The cop tells the guy "leave the candy" and then "take your change and go"... wtf did he think the cashier was giving the guy change for??
The guy is standing at the counter, no weapon, getting change from the cashier and puts a roll of candy that was on the counter in front of the cashier in his pocket. The cashier didn't stop or question him. IMHO the cop had no reason to even suspect any wrongdoing, and it was definitely wrong for him to draw his weapon.
Cop should just have bought the Mentos after, then walked past the imam-bearded Latino guy and flashed the Mentos smile and held the roll of Mentos like a thumbs-up. Imam-beard-Latino guy would have smiled at his disarmingly charming ways, and everything would be alright...
Just another example of why Americans hate/fear their police. Do they have any training at all?
This would cost the cop his job in the UK.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
It does look like he's stealing it. But pulling a gun on someone for that? Even if you're a police officer, that's going way too far.
He could've just asked; "did you pay for that?", without pulling the gun and the results would be better. The cop made a situation that looked like petty theft worse, by making it look like armed robbery, since he was in plainclothes.
Imagine a second off duty cop with the same attitudes towards pulling his gun and jumping to conclusions walked in and saw one man pointing a gun in the direction of the customer and the clerk.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
