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"You guys keep posting that picture of the blue truck shot in California [from] two years ago and the situations are so different it is ridiculous."

Is it all that different?
In that earlier California case, police thought the blue Toyota Tacoma was a gray Toyota Tundra. They *somehow* thought the 47 y.o. and 71 y.o. female Latina occupants was a black male perp.

The next innocent person they nearly killed on this manhunt was a white male driving a black Honda Ridgeline...yet triggerhappy police shot at him and rammed his vehicle, too. He apparently closely resembled the perp, who was of a different race driving a different make/model vehicle.

Tamzee...John Tully is your NEIGHBOR, for goodness sake! Police have stopped him nearly two dozen times to the point that he wears his identification on a lanyard around his neck to avoid reaching into his pockets...for fear of getting clubbed or shot.

Do you agree there has to be a better way by which to enable this innocent resident of your SAME neighborhood to travel to his workplace without fear of police guns being pointed at him? Someone steps on a dry stick, drops a flashlight, or farts...and your neighbor John Tully could be shot to Swiss cheese.

I don't think you are understanding me... I DONT BELIEVE HIS STORY about getting attacked. Yes, I believe he has probably been stopped and questioned regularly, as have many of us. He is probably stopped more often than others as he is walking through wooded roads in search during the middle of the night. But I have also run into state police and searchers several times and found them to polite and professional in every single instance. On one occasion I was clearly in their way. They not only didn't push me around or ask me to leave, they expressed a worry for my safety and told me to be very careful in that area. They are consistently very concerned about the well-being of the residents here. Could there be an occasional jerk among the hundreds of searchers? Of course. But every single one I have deal with has been perfectly courteous and trying hard to work the search area and protect residents and let us go about our lives at the same time.

Then I come onto Free Republic and see these same men and women being painted as the Gestapo and I am "Stalin" if I don't agree that "cops=pigs". It is like reading a New York Times article about Ronald Reagan. Twilight zone unreality.