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You can state your opinion all day and its not going to change anything.
One does not have to follow an order that a police officer has not been instructed to give.
A good example is the courts saying an officer can not stop someone from filming them if they are in public despite so many trying to demand that people do just that.
That's hardly an order to stop filming them from a cam.
When there's a stop, and the suspect hasn't yet been given the approval to be on her way, putting away the cig (and the cell phone) were reasonable demands; both are distractions, something burning in her hand at 750° F, never mind all the smoke.
That's funny. Some folks here never cease to amaze me. This isn't a Police State yet. He had no right to do what he did, based on a cheap chicken crap violation any good cop would have never acted on.
From asking 2 police officers..because she was so agitated she could have reached out and burned the officer or threw it at him. People have done less and worse so that's a liability.
She could have threw it, he ducked and she jumped out of the car and attacked.
oh please...She might have thrown a cigarette at the cop? You talked to two cops and they said that's a reason to pull a taser on a person? I really, really doubt that.
I watched the news last night. Local news, I live in Houston and our expert said "If a cop ass you to put out a cigarette they CAN tell you to and you 100% SHOULD"
I don't know who your 'expert' is, but they are wrong. He had no authority to tell her to put out the cigarette, it isn't against the law to smoke. If a cop is frightened by the 'threat' of a cigarette they need to put their big boy pants on or get another job
It didn't result in death. Her suicide and the traffic stop are completely unrelated events.
Bull. It has everything to do with it. If the Cop acted like that, and assaulted her in her own car, for no reason except anger, then who is to say they didn't kill her in her cell. I would not trust any of them. The Cop had no business arresting her for nothing, and if she had not been in that cell, she would still be alive today. The Cop is to blame for all of this.
And what proof do you have that she kicked him? He left relevant information in his report so he's already proven himself to have the propensity to lie.
I say when a man with a gun given by government stops you ;do not do anyhting stupid is first rule.
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