Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:26:33 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Police shooting videos leaves questions unanswered References: <849925421.734459988.258698.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <5nid1jpaeq3nj77dq7dopphbdjc2ibjhpn@4ax.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:34:39 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 65 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-zaJHWLydOhR65KVUuEVIwP0eCmoD8d/471icpDfSNDYs7UOAGIK1xqUQDY7+KdschDtGvVPSY1/K9Yj!wq9W3GPCvn0JbLm1u4jjYwgEf0PDmFzhfLazB8JIJO+R9TYEo8+65mL0Zbd1ViNVVIcVMuCbNmvt!W9hLH7B0xkXfVz6IOqceVCc= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4668 In article <5nid1jpaeq3nj77dq7dopphbdjc2ibjhpn@4ax.com>, shawn wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:05:24 -0700, anim8rfsk > wrote: > > >Adam H. Kerman wrote: > >> Civilian Office of Police Accountability (a city agency that investigates > >> police) just released video of a shooting on March 21 on the west side > >> of Chicago. The driver of a vehicle pulled over for a traffic stop, > >> a 26 year old man, is dead. Police say he shot first (not clear from > >> provided video); four officers fired. One police officer was hit in the > >> forearm. There is video from a neighbor's surveillance camera that > >> implies that the officer, on the passenger side of the vehicle, was hit. > >> > >> The office recommends relieving police officers who shot at the man of > >> powers during the investigation. I think that means full suspension with > >> pay, not just desk duty. > >> > >> Now, for a traffic stop, the vehicle was surrounded by multiple tacticle > >> officers. This makes no sense. > > > >And yet it happens. > > > >Way back when I was in high school people thought it was funny to peel the > >little update tag off other peoples license plates. I was on my way home > >from school and some cop noticed the missing tag. He not only pulled me > >over he called in and I found myself surrounded by three police cars and > >six policeman. Who have collared a teenage kid in a 71 gremlin a block > >from his parents house. > > > >Now I knew about the tag but back in those days the only place you could > >get a replacement tag was halfway to where BTR lives and it was only open > >during banking hours on weekdays. So I had to write for a replacement tag > >or skip a day of school. I had a copy of the request for the replacement > >tag in my glove box, and in fact it had been processed and the tag was on > >the way. > > Sounds like what happened to a friend of mine back in college. He was > driving home when he found himself pulled over with multiple cops with > guns pulled out and pointed at him in the car because his car matched > one used in a bank robbery. Same happened to me in Maryland as me and three other agents were on our way back to the office from lunch. We found ourselves surrounded at an intersection by cop cars on all sides, cops piling out and pointing guns at us. There'd been a bank robbery a few miles away minutes before and the thieves shot someone as they fled in a red Dodge Charger. I was driving a red Dodge Charger. The cops were screaming at me to shut off the car and get out and I knew the last thing I wanted to do was get out of the car in front of all these adrenaline-hyped guys who are pointing guns at me with my own gun on my waist. Yes, there was a badge right next to it but why risk your life on betting they don't have tunnel vision? So I turned off the car and then activated all the police lights on my car--front windshield, grill, both side windows, and rear, burped the siren a few times, and then turned on my radio's PA and blasted out for them all to hear, "There are four armed federal agents in this vehicle. Run the tags and you can verify the agency it is registered to. We'll wait with our hands visible while you confirm. We do not want to emerge from this car with our duty pistols on our persons with 20 cops pointing guns at us." Thirty seconds goes by and all the cops lower their guns and we get out and resolve the issue.