Let them do their jobs. If they look hot, offer them water or lemonade or something. Don’t soak ANYONE without getting consent; it’s jerkish. Don’t be a jerk.
video of police in nyc being doused with water and pelted with small objects while making an arrest.
On the one hand, one might laud them for showing due restraint. Except, of course, that it was due restraint, not especially laudatory (beyond “you did your job properly, good”).
And it really changes nothing anywhere else. All the other police who have recklessly killed minorities, or failed to repudiate blue-brothers/sisters who have, are not now suddenly vindicated/exhonerated because a few officers got wet/bruised.
There’s way too much gray area when it comes to border’s ability to detain. They can essentially detain a person indefinitely until they have evidence to their satisfaction that you are who you say you are and that you’re here legally. Customs and Border Patrol officials are probably the last officers anyone would want to be a wise ass to - and for the record not saying that’s what happened here. Seems like a gross miscarriage of justice
They fucking well better respond sooner rather than later. The regular citizens of both this country and our southern neighbor need to see some accountability in our public servants; fucking responding shouldn’t be a high bar to clear.
Sorry, that video is sickening in isolation. Don’t care about whataboutism of other cops in other places did other things … walking up and throwing buckets of water on anyone without consent, ever, is incorrect.
No way that’s legal, either. I’m sure it’s a misdemeanor, but still illegal. Unsure of why the cops didn’t react – they probably assumed the perps were aiming to make a viral cop-assaulted-me! video.
So the Iowa small town cop who was caught on video beating on a motorcyclist resigned. The county sheriff is back to accepting prisoners from that town. And “Prosecutors are dismissing several criminal charges and traffic tickets against people arrested by an Iowa police officer who is no longer considered credible.”
So a little bit of justice. Maybe more if the cop and town gets sued.
They updated the story to change his name to “Tench”
Also, the guy was just protecting his house. Isn’t that what people have guns for? Where are the gun people aghast that a man protecting his home with a gun was shot for his trouble?
The video at the website is not the unedited body cam footage, it is from a newscast and the body cam footage has been edited for the broadcast.
But it does feature the cop blaming the victim with “you pointed a gun at me” and the victim defending hiimelf by saying “it’s 12:30 at night, I was asleep, I don’t know who you are, I was protecting myself in my home.”
This cop fucked up. He should not have a weapon and should not be a cop, IMO. He was sent to check on a health monitor going off, and his primary thought is “I might be in danger”? :rolleyes:
Shouldn’t this story also go in the Positive Gun News thread? Wait, maybe it should go in the Stupid Gun News thread? Oh, I’m so confused! Was there a good guy with a gun in this story? Well, I know there was a cop and he always gets that label? Sooo confused!
Was there a good guy with a gun in this story? Well, I know there was a cop and he always gets that label? Sooo confused!