I’m not necessarily on the cops’ side on this. I just hate to see this kind of wild behavior rewarded with the media, and apologies.
The cop may have been 100 percent wrong. I don’t know. A cop’s abuse of power cannot be accepted.
Butt those kids were not 100 per cent right.
I agree.
I agree 100%. The kids were clearly not 100 percent right. Many (if not all) of them had no right to be there, and they deserved to have the police called on them to come and boot them from the area.
But, at the same time, that does not mean that the officer was justified in behaving as he did. The other 11 officers at the scene handled the situation very well, but the officer who resigned did not.
Assuming the lawyer’s statement about the two suicide calls is accurate (and I have no reason to think it’s not), I sympathize with the officer. Two emotionally-draining calls, and then he’s thrust into a difficult, tense crowd situation? That’s a tough, tough day for any officer. But part of the (extremely difficult) job of being a police officer is maintaining composure—even in very difficult situations, and even on very tough days. He did not do that. I hope this is a learning experience for him.
I think the cop totally overreacted to the situation-but there were supposedly several 911 calls from residents complaining about the party crashing and rowdy goings-on, and the DJ the hostess hired apparently screwed up by not mentioning the pool was part of the subdivision amenities and not open to the public.
There appears to be plenty of blame to go around-want to bet the HOA will ask the family of the hostess to move, or that they get sued for damages? I hope so-the clueless little twit nearly caused a riot...
And the outside agitators should be told to leave or risk being held responsible if anything else happens-or maybe just put them back on the bus that brought them...