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The fact that more than a month has gone by and the police are still investigating means they had no intention of disciplining that cop. Now that it has made national news they will be forced to take some action. An investigation of this nature should have been concluded within a day. How much is there to possibly investigate when it was all caught on video?
Ah, so minimum wage workers should now how to act perfectly in life and death situations.....I think I get it.
Do you think that clerk gets lifetime health care, fat pension, union representation and the ability (99% plus chance) to be proven innocent if he shoots someone??
Expectations of people are in line with their responsibility. A clerk has very few.
A simple, "He paid for it" was all the clerk needed to say.
A simple, "He paid for it" was all the clerk needed to say.
Confrontation resolved.
The clerk may have been frozen with fear that he'd be shot if he spoke up. Perhaps the cop could have first asked if the mentos were paid for before pulling the gun.
I don’t put any of this on the clerk. He just watched some idiot claiming to be a police officer brandishing a gun because he thinks some guy is stealing a pack of mentos. I’d assume that it was not a police officer because what cop acts like that? I would probably freeze lest the lunatic shoot me for saying, “he didn’t steal it.”
Hopefully this Good Guy With a Gun gets his gun taken from him and he’s given a desk job where he can mumble to himself about not getting a piece of cake or that someone took his stapler or whatever.
The clerk may have been frozen with fear that he'd be shot if he spoke up. Perhaps the cop could have first asked if the mentos were paid for before pulling the gun.
No doubt.
The cop was totally at fault for instigating the whole thing.
The clerk was in the perfect position to defuse it all with a simple four word statement.
The clerk was in the perfect position to defuse it all with a simple four word statement.
How did the clerk know that the dude who pulled the gun wasn't some crazy mentally deranged fella who would have shot the first person to make a move or say a word?
Of course - the answer is he didn't.
Remember, an armed society is a polite society. Therefore, when confronted with a gun pointed in his direction, the clerk was polite - and quiet.
well that depends on the situation, i mean if the guy had a gun on the clerk, then the cop would have been justified pulling his gun out. or how about when armed robbers are ribbing a bank, do you think that cops should just walk in without pulling the guns first?
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Originally Posted by cyrano
I think the officer should have shot him. For all he knew, the guy could have been planning to drop them in a Coke and create a deadly soda geyser.
Today, knives in London. Tomorrow, soda geysers in America.
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Originally Posted by desertdetroiter
This cop needs to be fired immediately. And he should be charged with brandishing a weapon at a citizen unjustifiably.
Crap like this really angers me. This is why people are increasingly suspicious of cops.
i fully agree with you my friend. this cop should be fired, or at the least sent back to the academy for a number of refresher courses. at worst the cop should be brought up on charges, brandishing a weapon for one, among others depending on what prosecutor can come up with, and tried on those charges.
Are people really making excuses for Barney Fife? This NEVER should have happened and the fact that he overreacted over a damn roll of Mentos proves he's unfit for the job. This is the kind of guy who will be quick to shoot if he's that quick to draw his weapon.
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