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Subject: Re: Cop has no qualified immunity in detention of... fireman
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:55:26 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mar 24, 2025 at 1:55:54 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> Only in California!
> 
> Stupidest facts ever. There was a multi-vehicle collision on a
> California expressway. Firemen from the closest municipal fire
> department responded to assist with traumatic injuries; there was no
> fire. As they are trained to do, they used the firetruck to block
> traffic lanes so that firemen/paramedics could work safely in traffic
> lanes treating the injured. This makes sense, right?
> 
> Well, not to CHP. Once again we see how far a once respected police
> agency has fallen since the days of Ponch and Jon. One patrol officer
> got the firemen to move some of the vehicles to partly reopen the
> highway, but the engineer (driver) of the remaining fire truck refused
> to move it as it was the sole barrier to the other firemen and injured.
> 
> The other patrol officer seeing that the fireman wasn't complying with
> the first patrol officer "took charge" by taking that fireman into
> custody.
> 
> The state law is unclear about who is in charge between firemen and
> police in this scenario, but I think the state legislature expected
> everybody to behave like adults and a law wasn't required.

I can't imagine why the reptiles in the state legislature would expect others
to behave like adults when they themselves can't behave like adults.