When have I ever stated that an officer can make up laws as they go along? All I've been saying is that I'm pretty sure that there's a law that requires citizens to obey orders given by Police when they're conducting official business, and that if you don't your location is irrelevant. You're telling me that you can sit on your porch and point a loaded firearm at a Police officer and just laugh it off when he tells you to put it down and that you're under arrest. I'd love to see some place where ANY law enforcement officer would let that fly, regardless of the laws. As a matter of fact, I'd love to see some place where ANYONE that was legally armed themselves would let that fly even if they weren't law enforcement officers.
I'm also 100% certain that laws and regulations are given leeway in situational circumstances. For example, if an officer feels unsafe. I don't disagree that this instance in particular called for arresting the girl filming, but even if the cop did just make up some BS about feeling unsafe so he could stop her from filming... That's one cop, out of hundreds of thousands of cops who generally do their jobs well and people don't have a problem with. Hell he could of been having a bad day, you guys are making this out to be the end of the world because some cops don't like being filmed for whatever reason.
Open your eyes and look at the big picture please. Stop focusing on the bad apples in the bunch and try to look at the whole, then note how the whole is trying their best to weed out the bad apples. Please stop being so stereotypical against Police officers, they're not all bad.
In regards to the Tennessee officers stealing money, the idea behind seizing large amounts of money makes sense so long as it's returned afterwards if nothing illegal can be linked to it. What their doing IS literally highway robbery, especially since you need to take (most likely costly) legal action to have it returned.
=sw=warlord has received an infraction for Flaming, so will anyone else in this thread who decides that it's a fun idea to blatantly disregard forum rules. There's nothing wrong with stating your option, or your reasoning behind it. There's no reason to insult other forum members for doing so.
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