[garandgal]

A nutcase gets pulled over while driving. The officer asks for his license. He mutters something about the fringe on the American flag and claims the officer has no right to stop him, and drives off. The officer follows. The driver speeds dangerously and tries to run the officer off the road, and eventually jumps out with guns blazing. The officer shoots and kills the driver. The anarcho-ideologues then whine: "Oh my! That poor man was murdered by the police merely for driving down the street!"

Oh, stop with the histrionics. The person in your scenario went on to commit an actual crime. What was hers? Questioning an police officer? He brought it upon himself by being overly zealous; she overreacted, and it ended with a pregnant woman handcuffed on the ground. For an incident WHICH WAS NEVER A LEGITIMATE CRIME...which was the only point that I was trying to make in my post.

[Cultural Jihad]

Histrionics? Perhaps taking the same mindset to its logical conclusion. She wasn't arrested for talking too loudly. Had the Me-ocrat suddenly learned that other people have rights, too, she would have said, "Gee, I didn't realize I was infringing on other people's rights. I'll try to do better. Thank you for informing me, Officer," and she wouldn't have been arrested.

[Lance Romance]

Actually, enforcement of such scofflaws were what cleaned up NYC under Giuliani. It appears enforcement of such minor civil codes of conduct does have an effect.