Posted on 01/03/2007 2:08:50 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
First, I am a medically retired cop courtesy of of a punk with a gun. (Cost me one of my two favorite lungs.)
Second, the Constitution does not contain any clauses to the effect of "all this goes on hold if the cop feels like it." If the cop cannot remain within the boundaries of the Constitution, then he needs to find something else to do for a living.
Third, the leading cause of death for cops is cardiovascular disease, not punks shooting at them.
The cops were pretty clearly in the wrong, especially when they started threatening the man with jail time.
I spent 20 years in the service protecting your right to free speech.
I withdraw my gift.
--Looks to me like the kid won, fairly.--
What did the kid win?
--No, I read the transcript.--
"It shows. I suppose you believed all those 'descriptions' added in by the kid, too?"
You are deducted several points in this debate. There is a video link which is consistent with the transcipt. You only go to the razzles dazzle shuffle in the absence of facts. Missed that link eh?
Send me doins' info in Freepmail. I also want to sign for your chapter's newsletter.
How very melodramatic, but I live in VA.
The kid is a complete ass who set this up, just like those 6 imams that got themselves thrown off the plane and suddenly were all over TV. Yeah, I always take a video camera rolling with me every time I drive. (/sarc) His intent was to provoke an incident and then try and make a scene in the media. Unfortunately for him the police acted professionally, and the encounter is nowhere close to how this activist writer and the other cophating filth try to portray it as.
Tell Ringer to, it is his chapter.
I'm in 3, he is the one in 1797.
I will let you know though.
Cheers,
knewshound
And that justifies bad behavior by other cops how, exactly?
--Your opinion will change after something like this happens to you.--
I've had worse and I was not confrontational with the cop like the snot-nosed kid was.
Agree. I must have seen too many WWII movies with Nazis stopping people for "their papers". This is portrayed as bad and I still believe it.
Just saying, stupidity isn't a crime. It's the only possible crime the kid committed and you wanted him to be arrested for it. Think about it.
You might want to avoid DWI checkpoints for the next few hours. Do us all a favor and stay at home and sleep it off!
In addition to the ILLEGAL search of the citizen's car, I also noticed a verbal threat of arrest at the officer's whim.
--Or perhaps somebody who had previously been rousted in a checkpoint before, and was prepared this time?--
No. More like his liberal teacher had 'prompted' him on how great it is to get police brutality on film.
John Kerry...is that you?
No, they did not.
Police officers acting in their official role do not have rights; they have enumerated powers. Authority to compel you to tell them the nature of your business is not one of those enumerated powers. The authority to threaten a citizen with jail time for being insufficiently servile is not one of those enumerated powers.
The conversation should never have taken place to begin with. The fact that they stopped him for no reason is unconstitutional, checkpoint or no checkpoint, regardless of how the communist courts have ruled.
I used to hate cops too, and I still do. This incident is an example of why.
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