Just a “police officer”? Not the Chief, not the Mayor, just a cop? And the evidence? Any evidence? One cop says so, and, so far as you are concerned, that settles it? Seriously?
They are expected to question them, at the appropriate time and place. Which is emphatically not in the middle of a riot.
Do we know that they didn’t?
The cop says so and the FAA closes the airspace. Unless you think the FAA is trying to shut down the press…
OMFG, George W Bush was a looter!
They certainly can, at the appropriate place and time. “While a cop is ordering you to evacuate” is not that time.
Yeah? Without even Steophan’s exceptions for indentured murdertude or forced fellatio?
You are a very damaged human being, and I’m honestly sorry for the trauma you must have suffered in your life to bring you to this point.
The kid that got shot because he belonged to the same group as the looters.
If there is no physical result, what is there? Do you require any kind of evidence at all to reach your preferred opinion? You are pressing this as though you had solid and irrefutable evidence. Have you? Might you not put forth a more sensible thought, like the FAA made its decision on the side of caution, under circumstances clouded with doubt.
I’m not objecting to the FAA’s decision, sure, why risk it? What I am objecting to is your rock solid certainty based on nothing more than hearsay.
If only the British army had thought to tell the Americans to disperse at Yorktown.
By the way, just to show how reporter’s recollection of events can be wrong:
“As I turned the corner I tried to ask him… ‘Am I going to be able to move my car?’ They didn’t want to answer that question.”
If you watch the video, the policeman answers that question immediately after being asked. What’s weird is Lowery reporting that even when he had access to his own video that shows otherwise.
If there are to be words in my mouth, I much prefer my own, thanks anyway.
Nothing wrong with the FAA’s decision, they were being cautious. No prob. What I have a problem with is you asserting certainty where no such certainty is even possible!
Not apparent from the link. Specifics?
So true.
As to the rest of your post, thanks for helping to fight my ignorance.
There is certainty that the police are saying the police helicopters were fired upon, several times.
Still not seeing any “sick lecture”. Perhaps you can put it in bold for me?
O’Reilly is exactly right. It’s tough sometimes weighing the right thing to do. You want to follow the law. You want to determine the facts. But you don’t want to be insensitive to the people who are justifiably upset about losing a loved one.
I guess now I’m giving a “sick lecture” too, huh?
What is “not apparent from the link”?
Those are abuses of police power, and in the long run that officer would pat dearly for it. In the short term, it is always better to submit and make out like a bandit in the courts than to die with the moral high ground.
Not everyone would blow a cop simply because he ordered you and hope the courts settle it later…just saying.
If blowing a cop is the least bad option…