Were he an engineer he would have been arrested for firing his gun in public.
Right back at you. Asshole kids who were terrorizing this guy. Its not surprising that you would sympathize with them as you also terrorize your neighbors with your loud music as you admit. This is a local story.
“Terrorizing?” Really? For most of the video the man had the kid and a bunch of other kids were standing around watching. The guy is escalating the situation by dragging the kid around for no apparent reason.
The off-duty policeman claims that the kid “threatened” him by saying that the kid would shoot him, which is the his self-proclaimed reason that grabs onto the boy and continues to manhandle him. In this “he said, he said” story, the boy claims to have only said that he would sue the guy.
We’ve seen enough false reports from police claiming all sorts of things after they get into an incident. I’m not going out of my way to believe a cop who acted inappropriately.
For fuck’s sake. It’s a fucking kid who is 13 years old. You really believe kids are packing guns and your life is in danger? Bullshit.
Not US cops, but apparently Hong Kong Cops are starting to take a page from our police handbook:
But, but, but it was a highly charged time! if a cop can’t beat someone when they’re mad, when can they?
Please describe the way or ways in which the kids were “terrorizing” this man.
And your comments about me are totally fabricated. If that isn’t clear, perhaps this is: you are lying.
Are you taking the dipshit off duty officer’s side here? Typical.
Never? Nope. But let’s see the first. The chance of a 13 year old kid just talking when he says he would shoot someone is going to be a zillion times higher than actually having one.
Even it it were true that this child said that, it’s simply a bullshit excuse by a badge-heavy asshole who wanted to punish anyone because some kids sometimes walk across his fucking lawn.
“911, what’s your emergency?”
“A thirteen year old came onto my property and threatened to shoot me.”
“Oh come off it - they hardly ever shoot anyone. The little scamp is probably just kidding. Please don’t call 911 unless it is a real emergency. Have a nice day!”
Regards,
Shodan
Regardless, I thought you were never supposed to fire a warning shot. IIRC, a woman in Florida almost received something like twenty years for firing a warning shot while her husband was attempting to abuse her.
The 13 year old said in that very video that he did ***not ***say he was going to shoot him, he said he was going to sue him for grabbing him. And that was before the cop pulled his gun.
Who are you going to believe-The unarmed kid or the murderer?
“Sue”, “shoot”, they sound a lot alike. You can see the cop’s predicament. What if he thought the kid said “sue” when in fact he said “shoot”. The cop can’t hesitate. He has to immediately blaze away to protect himself. I mean, the only options available to the cop are to wait for the other guy to shoot, or to blast him first. You can’t go around saying words like “sue” to a cop unless you want to get shot. Everybody knows that. Nor should you use the words shoe, soon, soup, soot, stoop, scoop, shoo, school, scoot, sloop, spoon, stew, swoon, or spooge. That’s just common sense.
Has it been established that the officer fired his gun as a warning? The links don’t say anything about that AFAICT.
She “almost” received twenty years? What does that mean?
If you mean this case, the jury didn’t believe that she fired the shot as a warning - they convicted her in twelve minutes. It’s not hard to understand why - she went to her estranged husband’s house because he allegedly sent her threatening texts on her phone, then left his house, went to her car, got her gun, went back into his house, and fired a shot at him and his children. How is that analogous to a shot fired while being dragged over a hedge by teenagers?
Regards,
Shodan
911, what;s your emergency?
There are some kids on my lawn, and one said he was going to sue me.
Well, sir, you should fire a gun. That will chase those thugs off.
I read that he fired “into the ground”. I’m thinking he wanted to see the kid dance.
Guess I didn’t remember all the facts of that case as well as I thought. It was a bad anecdote anyway since it was in a completely different state with completely different laws.
However, I think it’s clear from the video that it’s a warning shot. He obviously aims away when he fires.
Either a warning shot or an accidental discharge due to his being in a tussle.
So where does cops and protesters and what cops do to the protesters rank around here? Is there an acceptable line either way?
Peacefully holding their ground=? Running away=? Throwing stuff at cops=? ? meaning what are the acceptable responses from police.
(I think guns towards cops = prison time if they didn’t get shot dead, no matter how good of a reason to protest.)
Of all the posters on here, I’m not surprised that you are defending a grown man shooting near a child. Something about law and order gives hard-ons to Pubs.
Why was the child on the man’s property? Could it be because the asshole, a grown man dragged him onto it?
Oh no. Law and order types here can’t see that. He “came” onto it. Just like rape victims “want” to have sex, right?
OK. I’ll explain this really, really slowly here:
If a punk comes, completely unprovoked onto your property and threatens you. Yes. You can call the police. You don’t even have to make up tales about him threatening you with a gun, which is the only way someone a foot smaller and 60 lbs lighter could possibly harm you.
But when you grab some kid off the sidewalk because someone else happen to step on it, you are a fucking asshole.
You can’t see the difference, of course. Or more likely you just like jerking people’s chains.
So, for you:
Directions
Cream butter, peanut butter and sugars together.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well.
Add baking soda, powder and vanilla.
Stir in flour.
Roll into balls, roll in sugar. ...
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 6-7 minutes or adjust to suit your oven and size of cookies!
Right on. In fact, shouldn’t this cop be suspended for not following procedure? I thought his training required emptying his magazine into the suspect’s center-of-mass as soon as there was any threat of misbehavior.
Unfortunately the video doesn’t show the lead-in to this trespassing crime. Shouldn’t the cop have called for backup when he saw kids on the sidewalk? The threat of trespass was imminent. And just a few warning shots might have prevented the heinous crime altogether.
I hope all Anaheim residents call 911 next time they see kids on a sidewalk. “Will you send a patrol car? Or should I just start shooting?” Maybe it will help police do their jobs better if they know citizens are following their lead.