Quote Originally Posted by Freelancer View Post
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.
Please point me to the legislation which grants police officers the authority to order people to do whatever they feel like for no justifiable reason when said people are on their own property.

Quote Originally Posted by Freelancer View Post
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.
What the fuck does that have to do with ANYTHING in this thread? We're talking about a woman standing in her yard with a camera, and you're creating a hypothetical about pointing a loaded gun at a cop? What the fuck? On what planet does that pass for a rational or relevant argument?

Quote Originally Posted by Freelancer View Post
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,
Are we talking about hundreds of thousands of cops here? No, we're talking about the cops in these videos. The cops in these videos are shitty cops who deserve to be reprimanded.

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you guys are making this out to be the end of the world because some cops don't like being filmed for whatever reason.
No, we're not. Honestly, I find blind apologists like yourself to be nearly as disheartening as the acts in these videos themselves. People with your mindset effectively perpetuate this crap, just like a mother who doesn't discipline her child is perpetuating the child's misbehavior.

Quote Originally Posted by Freelancer View Post
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.
Once again, who here is talking about "all" police officers?