Video shows off-duty officer pulling gun on man mistakenly suspected of stealing Mentos

[brewster]

Wondering what the guns and order crowd think of this? Officer pulls gun rather than badge, in a situation where there was no violence, threat of violence, nor even facts established. There was no theft, and in any case IT WAS ONE FUCKING ROLL OF CANDY!!!!!

I'm wondering what if a “good guy with a gun” had walked in, and with the kind of automatic lethal response we see here and we’ve become accustomed to, shot the “dude holding the employee and customer at gunpoint"? Should this guy be fired?

[Ex-California]

I've seen the anti-gun people crying about this today, but I don't think this is as much a GUN CULTURE failure as it is a failure of the Hero Police Culture.

All in all its a non-story, but its probably racist somehow too

[brewster]

I don't think the story is gun culture or race, its cops perceiving their only authority comes from the barrel of a gun. I cannot believe anybody trained this guy to pull a gun on a candy thief.

[Ex-California]

I don't think the story is gun culture or race, its cops perceiving their only authority comes from the barrel of a gun. I cannot believe anybody trained this guy to pull a gun on a candy thief.

I agree with you, but its being spun as such

[nmoore63]

I don’t see a complaint worth anything in the video

[Okeefenokee]

Monty would tell us it's his job to prove he wasn't trying to hold up that store with a sharp roll of candy.

[brewster]

I don’t see a complaint worth anything in the video

So you'd really have no problem with some asshat claiming he has a badge and chambering a round in a weapon pointed in your direction over nothing at all?

I want to amend my above statement about training, problem is he wasn't trained NOT to pull his weapon in a clearly nonviolent situation.

[nmoore63]

I don’t see a complaint worth anything in the video

So you'd really have no problem with some asshat claiming he has a badge and chambering a round in a weapon pointed in your direction over nothing at all?

I want to amend my above statement about training, problem is he wasn't trained NOT to pull his weapon in a clearly nonviolent situation.

Meh

[nmoore63]

I mean, the cop was wrong on the theft but the dude was wierd. Looked like theft to me. The cop was never not in control of his firearm. If he didn’t follow police and force expert say he should be trained to do it differently, then sure.

But they are waaaay big police problems than this.

[Speaker to Animals]

I don’t see a complaint worth anything in the video

Dude drew down on him.


If you were standing there, saw somebody you thought was stealing mentos, and you drew down on the guy, what do you think the cops would do to you?.