[sarasmom]

Hey, no argument from me about the idiocy of this incident.
I ran into a local city JBT at my apartment pool complex, telling some children to quiet down,as they were laughing too loud at 8:30.
(Quiet hours start at 10:00)
BATF guys providing anti-party controll at a college football game?
Nah, I don't think that is conducive to public safety or good civil order.
This is not the middle east, guns are not normally recklessly fired into the air.
Had I been in that crowd, I "might" have taken a pot shot at the undercover ATF guy myself, just as a civic duty.
I am sorry he is dead, but I am sorrier that a good LEO has to suffer for what was essentially a good judgement call.
No way the LEO could have possibly known the ATF guy was not the bad guy.

[WoofDog123]

" No way the LEO could have possibly known the ATF guy was not the bad guy."

No doubt he will be given different treatment at the prosecutorial level than you or I would.

Plainsclothes cops who draw guns without being CLEARLY identified as LEO's from ALL ANGLES are just asking for this, as there is possibly a good argument that under florida's new law a citizen who took this guy out would have been complying with the law, to the best of their knowledge.

Any plainsclothes cops on FR care to comment on this?

[OldSmaj]

BATF guys providing anti-party controll at a college football game?

Nah, I don't think that is conducive to public safety or good civil order.

This is not the middle east, guns are not normally recklessly fired into the air.

Had I been in that crowd, I "might" have taken a pot shot at the undercover ATF guy myself, just as a civic duty.

Please read my post at #31.

This guy was not an undercover ATF agent.

[TheBattman]

AGain - not the Feds...it was a STATE ATF officer. If there has been a large problem with underage drinking, the University may very well have asked for help from this STATE agency - and wouldn't be all that unusual of a request.