I like the fact that the uniformed cops didn’t give a shit, but some bigass ego of an undercover dick did.
Also owning a Hummer should be a shootable offense, unless you’re in the military and you’ve been assigned to drive it, or you’re Arnold Schwarzenegger.
We all know that the reason he pulled the gun wasn’t because of multiple felony assualts nor to improve public safety.
The reason he pulled a gun was because somebody threw snowballs at his Hummer. He loves his Hummer. His Hummer is a very nice, expensive status symbol, and it’s disrespectful of his status not to gape in awe as it rolls majestically down the street.
Is anyone else troubled that a police officer drives what many of us think of as an oinkmobile? What, a Jaguar was too ostentatious?
It’s worth noting from one of the links that apparently the Assistant Chief has no trouble lying to the public.
Actual Chief Lanier:
And for anyone who’s in doubt about the gun pulling:
Hurrah for public video equipment.
Anyway, this guy was completely and dangerously overreacting - you should not pull a gun in this kind of almost completely harmless situation especially not with dozens of people in the way; do not get your gun out unless you’re prepared to use it - but I have to say watching that video that at least the uniformed cops in this case seemed to have a good idea of how to handle the situation.
"There was no police pulling guns **on **snowball… "
“…pulled his service weapon…”
Note the word "ON".
Pulling a gun OUT is different than pulling a gun ON.
And what if it wasn’t a detective driving the Hummer, but Jesus Christ?
“In the event of the Rapture, this vehicle will be unmanned (but heavily armed)”
If this city has a policy that allows or directs plainclothes police officer to attempt to quell riots by themselves with the assistance of a single firearm and wihout identifying himself as a police, I’ve got to move the fuck out of here. God only knows what crazy ass Bruce Willis/Die Hard policies the MPD may have.
Any cop who has a shred of common sense wouldn’t seriously confront scores of people who he believes are seriously threatening him with harm without calling for backup. Seriously? One man and a gun stopping a riot of something like 100 people launching snowballs that might have bolts or anthrax in them? That’s fucking stupid.
I agree with others: he was pissed his car might be damaged. I would feel the same. But that doesn’t entitle me to pull a gun if I were armed.
This is a wondrous semantic distinction, I stand in awe. Shades of meaning in subtle interplays of grey.
If I read you right, you are suggesting that pulling the gun out does not imply intent to use, as would be clearly suggested by pulling a gun on. Are we then to believe that his gesture was merely informative, a public announcement of being armed? “I interrupt this pelting to advise the public that I possess a nine-millimeter pistol. This announcement is for informative purposes only, and should not be taken as a suggestion that I might blow one of you snotty little shits into the next world!”
Good we got that cleared up.
Maybe he was undercover as a pompous jerkwad ?
Why is it that no one shot the enraged nut who jump out of the hummer waving a gun and making threats?
Got a friend, semiretired asst chief of police, town next door. He’s begun growing a beard. Told him that as long as it wasn’t one of those regulation cop mustaches it was okay, but I’ve seen guys pretending to be undercover but whose mustaches branded them as cops from a block away.
He was called on his stones and bolts straw man so now he’s trying a different approach and hoping no once notices.
You’ll have to excuse him.
Or not.
Pulling a gun out means it’s there in his hand. Pulling a gun ON means that it is aimed at your personal ass. Having had a gun pulled ON me, I can tell you that the difference is not semantic at all. When it happens to you, you’ll also be aware of the clear and non subtle difference. Until it does, *you *are simply talking out of the ass I just mentioned.
Projammer- no strawman at all. It happens. Did it happen here? Is the investigation closed yet?
In any case, I checked out the video, and it’s clear the cop was absolutely in the wrong. :dubious:As the hipsters assaulting his car were not wearing tinfoil hats, OBVIOUSLY he should have been able to read their minds and know it was all in fun, they did not intend him any harm, they didn’t know he was a policemen. Thus, just because he was assaulted by a mob outnumbering him by many times, he should have known it was all a harmless joke. :rolleyes::
But its not hipster season! Its rabbit season!
I have. And I can’t think of a less edifying or instructive experience. Fear teaches nothing, it only rots the mind and is a venom to the spirit.
Is it not a public offence to block up traffic for such a trivial reason?
The crowd should have buried him in snowballs just for being such a prick!
ps. The first rule of Snowball Fight Club: We don’t use guns.
The poor traumatized police man. There he was with only his giant Hummer to protect him from soft snowballs.
Maybe he’ll trade the Hummer in for some kind of amphibious assault vehicle with gun turrets, so he can feel really safe from snowballs.
The first rule is that we don’t talk about the Snowball Fight Club.
Well I come from the old school where we do use guns in snowball fights. Problem here is too much talking and no body count.