pws wrote:
> Dana Myers wrote:
>
>> The officer's aggression was initially a raised "enforcement"
>> voice. That's hardly enough to start a problem. Snelling started
>> the problem when he indignantly refused to comply with the officer's
>> direction in a timely fa****on.
>
> "Enforcement voice"? Are you kidding me? That is supposed to be
> acceptable? We are not prisoners of war, we are citizens who should
> treat, *and be treated*, in a respectable way in this situation, not
> yelled at for no good reason.
>
>> Snelling was acting in an aggressive way, too. He was arguing with
>> the officer, and when he got out of the car, stepped toward the
>> officer rather than away from the officer and to the rear of the car.
>> O'Connor's response was harsh but hardly criminal; Snelling's
>> behavior was (perhaps unintentionally) threatening the officer.
>
> It was absolutely assault and battery of the worst sort, coming from
> those that we are never allowed to fight back. Like I said, he should
> be in prison instead of in a uniform.
>
> This cop is a s***bag, period. Pull people over and yell at them like
> that? Yeah, I'm glad we have assholes like that "protecting and
> serving" us.
I couldn't agree with you more, Pat. Too many people think that they're
required to submit when a police officer says "boo!" and it just doesn't
work like that. IOW, I'm not required to play Patsy Polite with a cop, and
he's not required to play it with me, either, but that doesn't mean he's
allowed to taze me because he doesn't like my attitude. About 10 seconds
elapsed between the cop asking for the paperwork and the driver getting
tazed. That's not *nearly* enough time without additional provocation from
the driver.
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