Last sentence of the article:
Sounds like it’ll be cheaper for taxpayers to fire his ass.
“While openly and flagrantly violating state law and the rules of the road”, is the part that you forgot to type there.
You misspelled “for acting in a disorderly manner and refusing to step out of the vehicle when ordered to do so.”
Yes, it is.
I know of no law that obligates a parent to commit suicide by attempting to save the life of a child when they have no confidence that they are able to do so safely.
They should have written her a ticket and left. No one was protected and served when they asked for ID from her passenger, or from pointing guns near children, etc. The police escalated a routine stop for no reason. They had no reason to even talk to the passenger, much less ask for ID, point guns, smash windows, and tase.
Which you yourself confessed to doing repeatedly.
I think we all know how * you * avoided being tased.
When did I say “commit suicide”? Risking one’s life isn’t committing suicide – I never said this was a whitewater river with dangerous currents. And risking one’s life to save one’s daughter is part of a parent’s duty.
Yes, and I regret and have learned from every one of those experiences.
Yes. I was honest, cooperative, and apologetic.
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
No, the passenger escalated a routine stop by refusing to comply.
The cops should take this lesson to heart. If they had been more kind and respectful, they probably would get more cooperation.
The cops had no legitimate reason to demand that he get out of the vehicle in the first place. Cops shouldn’t be able to make demands like this with no danger to the public or evidence that the man is wanted for a crime.
Tell it to the Supreme Court.
The cops aren’t the ones who weren’t kind or respectful here.
Wrong. Pointing guns, calling him “dumbass”, showering glass on children, etc., is neither kind nor respectful.
This is one of those instances in which the law is incorrect.
None of which would have been necessary had the occupants of the vehicle not shown them common courtesy from the start.
It was not necessary at all (“dumbass” was necessary!?). No one would have been harmed if they had not done this.
So you acknowledge that the cops were following the law here.
That’s good to know.
If it looks like a dumbass, and it babbles incoherently like a dumbass, and it refuses to get out of the car like a dumbass…
Nope. Even if the demand was lawful, that doesn’t mean the window-smash and the tasing was lawful. If it was, though, then the law should be changed.
He was coherent. If you couldn’t understand him, it’s because there’s a problem with you.
Further, calling a black man “it” and someone who “looks like a dumbass” doesn’t exactly portray you in the best light.