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Looks like these cops reacted very poorly to me.
Looks like these cops reacted very poorly to me.
What a mess.
That woman showed extremely poor judgement.
That said, the officers should have taken a deep breath and realized they would be able to take control of the situation sooner or later and that it wasn't necessary to amp things up the way they did. There was no immediate threat, just a scared woman not obeying orders.
Hard to say how I feel about the kid. He's a 14 year old thinking he's defending his mom. Stupid, sure. But he's 14. Stupid is to be expected, especially in that sort of situation. His mom set the tone of that encounter.
Eighth Judicial District Attorney Donald Gallegos said the situation could have been avoided if Farrell had followed the officer's instructions. "She wouldn't do the simple act of just signing a ticket," Gallegos said.
The cop shouldn't have fired his weapon, even if he was aiming for the tire, but wtf was that lady doing? Not that hard to cooperate during a traffic stop.
You can't blame the first officer for freaking out when he has a van with who knows what in it and a teenager coming at him. Any traffic stop could be the stop that some crazy person pulls a gun on him.
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What a mess.
That woman showed extremely poor judgement.
That said, the officers should have taken a deep breath and realized they would be able to take control of the situation sooner or later and that it wasn't necessary to amp things up the way they did. There was no immediate threat, just a scared woman not obeying orders.
Hard to say how I feel about the kid. He's a 14 year old thinking he's defending his mom. Stupid, sure. But he's 14. Stupid is to be expected, especially in that sort of situation. His mom set the tone of that encounter.
I agree. Not doing what a cop tells you should not be a life or death situation. The police have become quite militant. Not by choice but because of what they're being asked to do...but I don't want to go on a rant about the drug war again.
Turns out she had a couple marijuana pipes in her car.
I watched a video last week of ten or so California officers beating a guy to death in his parked car.
The guy was in a drive through and dazed and couldn't move the car, so some workers helped push him into a parking stall and called 911. The cops showed up and the guy was uncooperative so they beat the living **** out of a man, sitting in his car, trying to eat a Whopper.
I always wonder why these guys don't take a deep breath and tell the guy they have all day to wait. That would make my conscience a whole lot cleaner than beating the **** out of someone who clearly has no clue what's going on.
I watched a video last week of ten or so California officers beating a guy to death in his parked car.
The guy was in a drive through and dazed and couldn't move the car, so some workers helped push him into a parking stall and called 911. The cops showed up and the guy was uncooperative so they beat the living **** out of a man, sitting in his car, trying to eat a Whopper.
I always wonder why these guys don't take a deep breath and tell the guy they have all day to wait. That would make my conscience a whole lot cleaner than beating the **** out of someone who clearly has no clue what's going on.
Any traffic stop could be the stop that some crazy person pulls a gun on him.