I thought I’d make this thread to post stories of police aggression. I thought it would be nice to have news stories and other sources relating to the subject in one thread. Feel free to discuss as well!
Time to start it off:
Online threat — but SWAT team raids wrong house
Police: ‘Threat matrix’ dictated SWAT team response at Powell Avenue home
Are you cookin in here? I smell bacon.
Cop abuse Video.
Posted this in the low content thread, but I wanted a link here too.
Wow, and after the guy in the green shirt helps the cop load the man into the vehicle, the cop threatens the guy who helped him.
Classy.
I’m not sure if this would be brutality or aggression, but
I was walking with my friend to the library, and outside we were sitting on a concrete bench. There were hardly any people walking around, maybe 1 or 2.
So then he shows me an airsoft gun, and its alll chill. We start firing onto the grass to see how it worked. We fired off into the distance, but someone saw, and called the police. We didnt know that they callled since they were far away. BTW, the gun was clear in color, with a visible orange tip., anyone could tell from the distance it was a fake gun (of course it would make sense if the gun was painted black without the orange tip. Also the gun made little noise at all (maybe just a small pop when you pop a baloon)).
5 minutes later, 3 or 4 police cars came with a swat truck. The officers got out of the car and pointed (real) guns at us telling us to drop the gun and lay down on the floor. They slowly approached us with their guns drawn and pointed at us. We told them it was just a bb gun but they told us to shutup.
And then, they patted us down, etc, called our parents. We did not go to jail.
Lucky that we didnt go to jail, but i think that guns drawn with swat like that is a bit too apeshitty, dont you think?
Airsoft guns do not exactly look like toys. It’s pretty expected that cops would be called when two kids are aiming and firing such a weapon in a public area. And I’d say SWAT truck and guns drawn is pretty expected in that situation too.
Like you said, it was someone from far away who called. And you have no idea how that call went. I don’t think I would expect even a private defense agency to show up any less cautious. For all you know they were under the impression they were going to a scene in which two teenage boys with automatic weapons were holding people hostage at the public library.
And I hate to say this, but you should have known better.
Airsoft guns do not exactly look like toys. It’s pretty expected that cops would be called when two kids are aiming and firing such a weapon in a public area. And I’d say SWAT truck and guns drawn is pretty expected in that situation too.
Like you said, it was someone from far away who called. And you have no idea how that call went. I don’t think I would expect even a private defense agency to show up any less cautious. For all you know they were under the impression they were going to a scene in which two teenage boys with automatic weapons were holding people hostage at the public library.
And I hate to say this, but you should have known better.
Airsoft guns do not exactly look like toys. It’s pretty expected that cops would be called when two kids are aiming and firing such a weapon in a public area. And I’d say SWAT truck and guns drawn is pretty expected in that situation too.
Like you said, it was someone from far away who called. And you have no idea how that call went. I don’t think I would expect even a private defense agency to show up any less cautious. For all you know they were under the impression they were going to a scene in which two teenage boys with automatic weapons were holding people hostage at the public library.
And I hate to say this, but you should have known better.
I’m not sure whether I agree with any/all of that.
Um. K.
That’s right.
What’s right?
I forgot about this thread. This was posted in the low content a few days ago [it was taken down from youtube due to a “copyright claim from CBS”, which probably means one of the pigs or someone defend them when on and made a couple claims using the name CBS]. Here’s a couple of backup links in case the one below disappears too [1] [2]
As for the “flex your rights” thing, here’s a playlist:
I don’t agree. You have a right to carry assault weapons around town. There are of course some places that don’t, but you are more likely allowed to open carry a rifle then open carry/conceal carry a pistol. With that being said clear air soft guns look as real as nerf guns. There is no way anyone from any distance would suggest a clear plastic gun could. Be a real one. I agree there are Realistic ones, but not the clear ones. My guess the call said exactly what happened, couple of kids are firing air soft guns around the public library. The cops wanted to have fun and scare a couple kids. I was in the Marine Corps and we didnt do stuff like that in a war zone. A private security force wouldn’t of done it either. Let’s just say a swat company arrived, why would they pull out and point their weapons? Do they have any evidence of real rifles being fired? They would of proceeded cautiously, but they wouldn’t be allowed to pull out their firearms without an eminent danger. Where was the danger? Weapon safety rule NUMBER 2 “never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot”. With that rule/policy they proved they intended to shoot them if they would of done anything.
Lastly let’s assume the kids actually had real assault rifles, but not firing them. Do you really think this would of turned out differently? In fact it would be more likely those kids would of been shot and killed. So by your logic, anyone bearing arms is a threat and should be treated as a criminal in the middle of committing a violent act. I’d hate to live in your free society.
You also have a right to shoot up heroin, that doesn’t mean it’s the best idea to be doing it in plain view of the public. I don’t see your point.
Oh so now we’re switching from “rights” to what’s legal. Evidently you have no clue about gun laws and how they vary from state to state…let alone how they apply to minors.
Please show me the statute (for any state) which allows a minor to open carry an assault weapon and/or rifle anywhere.
I guess that’ll teach me to respond without quoting the full post. I don’t recall any of that information being in that post when I wrote mine. Kelvin must have edited his post after the fact.
And you’re basing this on what, exactly? You really think it’s that unlikely that a random idiot from “far away” didn’t see kids aiming a gun and assume it’s real? The culture of fear has ingrained it in the head of every average dumbass that everything is a threat. The media and the State leap on things like Columbine, VA Tech, and the Batman shooting and remind everyone that they are at risk from young hoodlums with guns at every single second of the day. And hey, “if you see something, say something”, right?
My whole point is that you have no clue what information was given on that call, and I think it’s pretty naive to assume your average random jackass who would put in a 911 is going to be cognizant enough to realize they’re actually making an emergency call about two teenagers playing with a toy gun. I mean, after all, this is a person making an emergency call about two teenagers playing with a toy gun.
Were you in a war zone?
Again, you have no idea what the idiot jackass said on the phone. For all you know it was a hysterical sheep crying about the next Columbine.
“would of”? Do you mean “would have”?
“allowed”?
Really. So you’re literally saying every single time a weapon gets aimed, it must be fired. Sounds more like “weapon danger” rule to me.
Wait a minute. What’s this “if” stuff? You just told me you’re not suppose to point at anything you don’t intend to shoot. Now you’re telling me there’s qualifiers? So one could point a weapon at something they didn’t necessarily intend to shoot?
And what is with this “would of” stuff?
Probably. Which is why they were lucky.
Can you say “non sequitur?”
You guys will love this one.
