Actually there are rules and laws that are different for LE. Have you read up on Title 42? 42-4-108 gives LE and other emergency vehicles special permissions. Use of certain types of force are allowed to LE to affect an arrest. It's not Orwellian or sinister- it's due to the nature of the job. It's not about equal application of the law- as LE does have to follow all laws, there are just exceptions due to the permissions we give to those who enforce the law. Don't look at it as the bad thing you think- we grant those who swore to protect, serve, and enforce our laws special permissions to effectively do their job... Or we could just follow the French and start lopping heads off, if you prefer...
"There is no news in the truth, and no truth in the news."
"The revolution will not be televised... Instead it will be filmed from multiple angles via cell phone cameras, promptly uploaded to YouTube, Tweeted about, and then shared on Facebook, pending a Wi-Fi connection."
It could be that he has been moved out of state for his protection if he has been handed over to the private prison people.
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“Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.” Andrew Jackson
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'
That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
Everyone knows only they are professional enough.
It's not "doing what he must" that I am criticizing - it's the very likely potential that he didn't "must" that.
And if you are a cop that's pissed off at how people perceive you, then YOU should take that anger out on the assholes who are ensuring that the only interaction you have with decent folk bears a striking resemblance to highway robbery.
Maybe save some of the anger for your those few of your coworkers who are pimps,drug dealers, child rapists, and murderers. These are the people who are ensuring that you will never have anything but a negative balance in your moral high ground account.
I don't pretend to have anyone figured out. However; by the wording of your posts, you are perfectly content with a police state, which myself, and obviously others on this thread, have a very hard problem with. How else is one to take your comments?
I am glad you are content with a barrel at your noggin, and you have nothing to hide. There is a reason some of the people on this board distrust LE in both situations, and I am one of them. It goes back to the old adage "trust but verify". Does that make me a NWA member? No. But it doesn't make me drink the "all LE is good" flavor-aid either...
Thank you Irving, and if that is coloccw's attitude, he should convey it.
Lastly, I do not profess to be a "cop basher" by any means (ref: post #77). However, the perception of the public, and some on this board, is that the lines of some LE and the military are beginning to blur...
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Sir Winston Churchill
“It is well for that citizenry of nation are not understand banking and money system, if they are, I believe there would be revolution before Tuesday morning.” Henry Ford
My feedback: http://www.ar-15.co/threads/33234-lt-MADDOG-gt
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Sir Winston Churchill
“It is well for that citizenry of nation are not understand banking and money system, if they are, I believe there would be revolution before Tuesday morning.” Henry Ford
My feedback: http://www.ar-15.co/threads/33234-lt-MADDOG-gt
3 reasons if I've done nothing wrong I have a problem with having LEO point a weapon at or almost at me
yes in 2 of the 3 they were arresting suspects but ND's happen. and I'd prefer the weapon was not pointed at ME ( or almost at me) when they happen. I avoid this by not doing anything to get an officer to point his weapon at me. but if I'm just driving to work and get caught up in something ( the original premise of the thread) WHY should I just be ok with it when things like in these three videos happens?
Meanwhile in other news... http://www.khq.com/story/19965150/co...his-patrol-car
And it ends like this... http://www.kasa.com/news/local/state...hot-with-taser
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