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Do we think twice about calling police?
Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 31 jan 10 | Vin Suprynowicz

Posted on 01/31/2010 5:41:25 AM PST by rellimpank

Charlie Mitchener, the Las Vegas business owner who was handcuffed and disarmed after presenting a concealed weapons permit along with his driver's license to a police officer responding to a burglary call at his place of business Jan. 3, has provided me with his Jan. 19 follow-up letter to Metro.

Mitchener says he decided to write police about his ordeal, detailed in this space on Jan. 10, lest his "silence may put someone else at risk."

"Shortly before 5 a.m. Jan. 3, the alarms in my office sounded and notified TSI, our security provider, that a break-in had occurred," Mitchener writes. "They ... dispatched a security guard.

"My wife, Peggy, and I arrived at the office about 5:15 a.m.; the security officer had arrived just before us. ... The security officer informed us that he had called Metro and they told him not to enter the building. ...

"The security officer said, 'I don't want to tell you what to do, but I'm familiar with situations where the bad guys will come busting out and your vehicle may provide them cover, so I suggest you move it away from the building.' "

(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
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To: thecabal

Well said, you have said nothing to deserve the attack that idiot launched on you.


21 posted on 01/31/2010 6:27:25 AM PST by exnavy (the blood of tyrants or patriots, may God's will prevail.)
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To: Elle Bee

I agree with your last statement.


22 posted on 01/31/2010 6:30:20 AM PST by sport
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To: rexgrossmansonlyfan
only scumbags hate the police

every single person who hates the police would throw a baby in front of a gang member and go cower in the corner

No decent person hates the police

Wow, do you eat a lot of donuts? That sure is a lot of angry stereotyping you are doing there.

23 posted on 01/31/2010 6:32:59 AM PST by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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To: thecabal; rexgrossmansonlyfan

Looks like the n00bs meds haven’t kicked in this morning. Just ignore the unhinged.


24 posted on 01/31/2010 6:34:19 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: rellimpank
It's déjà vu for this old hillbilly.

Nytimese headlines from the past.(as best I can remember).

Josef Stalin leads world to a happy, comfortable future
USSR Leading Global Race to Make Better Future
U.S. falls behind; women, children, and minorities face bleak future here.

25 posted on 01/31/2010 6:37:00 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: 999replies

Funny how a police hating person accuses me of using stereotypes.

There has never been a decent human being who hates all police.


26 posted on 01/31/2010 6:37:20 AM PST by rexgrossmansonlyfan (Brennan and Booth IT happens we have to wait til April because FOX is stupid)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
RE: USSR

My mistake.. I pushed the right button at the wrong time.

27 posted on 01/31/2010 6:39:49 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Law enforcement training and policy has seemed to turn their priority away from serving the public to protecting themselves and their colleagues.

When I see film of six or eight cops with guns drawn and pointed at a postrate suspect, often innocent, on his stomach on the ground I wonder how many people get accidently killed by a weapon going off in such situations. Such policies promote the “because I said so” attitude by many LEOs and leads to grannies getting slammed to the ground and hand cuffed.

I don’t want LEOs taking unreasonable risks but the job is one of reasonable risk. That is what they sign up for. Now many departments demand minimal risk along with minimum consideration for the public.


28 posted on 01/31/2010 6:40:03 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: Elle Bee

Another person who dances with joy every time a police officer dies and would throw a 3 year old in front of the gang member trying to kill him.


29 posted on 01/31/2010 6:40:23 AM PST by rexgrossmansonlyfan (Brennan and Booth IT happens we have to wait til April because FOX is stupid)
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To: rexgrossmansonlyfan
One quick look at your home page says it all, do you like living in the peoples republic of chicago?

Wait you might be a hope and changer!!! LOL

30 posted on 01/31/2010 6:40:58 AM PST by exnavy (the blood of tyrants or patriots, may God's will prevail.)
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To: thecabal

Your post was full of hate and gang banger lover calling me a bootlicker proves you hate the police.

Let’s see a gang member is attacking me who do I call?

The police or you who would high five the gang member and say “Please go kill every officer you find!”

DO you go to police officers funerals and say YEA HES DEAD YEA HES DEAD


31 posted on 01/31/2010 6:42:57 AM PST by rexgrossmansonlyfan (Brennan and Booth IT happens we have to wait til April because FOX is stupid)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

Glad for your fellow officers someone who hates the police is off the force,


32 posted on 01/31/2010 6:43:35 AM PST by rexgrossmansonlyfan (Brennan and Booth IT happens we have to wait til April because FOX is stupid)
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To: exnavy

Cabal hates police. I hate child rapists, murderers, robbers, general rapists and such.

So if hating child rape, murder, other rape and robbery is idiocy I guess I am an idiot.

Typical of things like you are the worthless POS that showed up at my friend’s husband’s funeral and chanted Death to Police.


33 posted on 01/31/2010 6:45:48 AM PST by rexgrossmansonlyfan (Brennan and Booth IT happens we have to wait til April because FOX is stupid)
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To: rexgrossmansonlyfan
"Yes there are bad apples but only scumbags hate the police."

There is a broad middle ground here. For instance, my view is that healthy and vigorous skepticism about government power, especially armed power directed against sovereign citizens, should always be employed.

Yes, most cops are good people. History is replete with the examples of good people doing horrible things.

34 posted on 01/31/2010 6:46:30 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Obama: The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers)
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To: rexgrossmansonlyfan

Lol. I don’t hate police (another ASSumption on your part), but I do think insecure people like you who spew garbage are more dangerous than a lot of criminal. I guess 80% of the Black population who hate police are all indecent. IF you beleive that, then maybe you are a racist trying to project your character flaws onto others.


36 posted on 01/31/2010 6:47:10 AM PST by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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To: 999replies

Thanks for the compliment gang banger supporter but I am not a police officer.

I have quite a few friends who are or married to one and gone to too many funerals of those killed by your heroes the gang bangers.


37 posted on 01/31/2010 6:48:41 AM PST by rexgrossmansonlyfan (Brennan and Booth IT happens we have to wait til April because FOX is stupid)
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To: 999replies

And what dance do people like you do when an officer dies?

80 percent of blacks are wary of police. Doesn’t mean they hate them like you do.

The criminals love people like you who support them.


38 posted on 01/31/2010 6:50:22 AM PST by rexgrossmansonlyfan (Brennan and Booth IT happens we have to wait til April because FOX is stupid)
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To: rexgrossmansonlyfan
Typical police hating gang banger lover.

You know, it is possible to disagree strongly without calling names and insulting fellow FReepers. Not to mention that ad hominum attacks are clearly against forum rules.

Just sayin'.

39 posted on 01/31/2010 6:50:39 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: rexgrossmansonlyfan; All

Dude, what is your major malfunction?


40 posted on 01/31/2010 6:52:22 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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