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Yeah… I just watch the video again and I'm still completely baffled that her actions were not grounds for termination.

She basically decided to pull over and harass this gentleman for what appears to be no good reason. Then she decided to falsify probable cause in order to illegally detain him all because he didn't just bend over and do exactly as she said. And did all of this on video no less, which means that she didn't really feel like what she was doing was even wrong.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Was just about to post this. Some on VN think cops have to enforce the letter of the law every time. I agree with this cop's attempts to create the greatest overall good, rather than just blindly enforcing the law.
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Agreed.

This is one of the reasons I post the "good" stories.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Was just about to post this. Some on VN think cops have to enforce the letter of the law every time. I agree with this cop's attempts to create the greatest overall good, rather than just blindly enforcing the law.
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Police stop teens seeking snow shoveling work

The two friends were canvasing a neighborhood near this borough's border with Bridgewater early Monday evening, handing out fliers promoting their service, when they were pulled over by police and told to stop.
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"We don't make the laws but we have to uphold them," he said Tuesday after reading some of the online comments about the incident. "This was a state of emergency. Nobody was supposed to be out on the road."
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#3,681
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Show me
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Well, this seems relevant:

Police Chief Michael Jannone said the two young businessmen were not arrested or issued a ticket, and that the police's concern was about them being outside during dangerous conditions, not that they were unlicensed.
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And so was this:

Jannone said an officer was dispatched to the street because a resident called to report a "suspicious person" with curly blond hair and a hoodie who was walking through yards.
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Oh wait, here's the HUGE factor you omitted on purpose:

A responding officer told the young men that it wasn't safe to be out and to come back during the day.
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Very MSNBC of you to omit the parts that don't fit your childish agenda.
 
#3,682
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Police Chief Michael Jannone said the two young businessmen were not arrested or issued a ticket, and that the police's concern was about them being outside during dangerous conditions, not that they were unlicensed.
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Dangerous conditions?

"Are you kidding me? Our generation does nothing but complain about his generation being lazy and not working for their money," he wrote on Bound Brook NJ Events' page. "Here's a couple kids who take the time to print up flyers, walk door to door in the snow, and then shovel snow for some spending money. And someone calls the cops and they're told to stop?"
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Really?

Jannone said an officer was dispatched to the street because a resident called to report a "suspicious person" with curly blond hair and a hoodie who was walking through yards.
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Gotta watch out for these curly blond haired thugs with hoodies and shovels...

A responding officer told the young men that it wasn't safe to be out and to come back during the day.
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Did a cop really tell teenage boys that it is unsafe to be walking around the neighborhood in the snow? Really?
 
#3,683
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Dangerous conditions?
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You know, a winter storm that made national headlines?

Oh, it wasn't on RT so you might have missed it.

Rasputin_Vol said:
Gotta watch out for these curly blond haired thugs with hoodies and shovels...
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Were they carrying shovels? Did I miss that in the article?

And are you implying that white kids can't be thugs?

Rasputin_Vol said:
Did a cop really tell teenage boys that it is unsafe to be walking around the neighborhood in the snow? Really?
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During the aforementioned winter storm, and after dark, and after someone had called in a suspicious person.

Now are you avoiding the relevancy that THEY TOLD THEM TO COME BACK THE NEXT DAY, DID NOT CITE THEM AND ALLOWED THEM TO DO WHAT THEY ORIGINALLY WANTED?

Or is that too much for you to admit when you are caught dead wrong?
 
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Grand Vol said:
You know, a winter storm that made national headlines?
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You mean the one that everyone overreacted from last week that amounted to a whole lot of nothing? Pretty much ended up being your typical winter storm?

Or is that too much for you to admit when you are caught dead wrong?
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The cop obviously realized that all they were doing was shoveling snow. What difference did it make when they shoveled the snow? They cop should have just drove off and said have a nice day and left them alone... no matter if it was 2:00 in the afternoon or 8:00 at night. Obviously, the person paying them to shovel their driveway at that time needed the service and didn't have a problem.

I'm sorry, but is NO EXCUSE for a cop to tell teenage boys to get from outside and go home because of snow. Are you kidding me? You really going to defend cops enforcing some unwritten law about staying indoors during snowy days?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
You mean the one that everyone overreacted from last week that amounted to a whole lot of nothing? Pretty much ended up being your typical winter storm?


The cop obviously realized that all they were doing was shoveling snow. What difference did it make when they shoveled the snow? They cop should have just drove off and said have a nice day and left them alone... no matter if it was 2:00 in the afternoon or 8:00 at night. Obviously, the person paying them to shovel their driveway at that time needed the service and didn't have a problem.

I'm sorry, but is NO EXCUSE for a cop to tell teenage boys to get from outside and go home because of snow. Are you kidding me? You really going to defend cops enforcing some unwritten law about staying indoors during snowy days?
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Who would've been outside looking for their little asses had they succumbed to the cold? Momma and daddy would've called the police.. The police and other emergency personnel would've risked their lives for theirs. Yeah, sometimes people cross those creeks in floods, even though there's multiple warnings not to.. Who goes to their rescue? I cannot figure out why this is so hard to understand.. Furthermore, I am pissed that I have allowed myself back into this abyss of silliness.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
You mean the one that everyone overreacted from last week that amounted to a whole lot of nothing? Pretty much ended up being your typical winter storm?


The cop obviously realized that all they were doing was shoveling snow. What difference did it make when they shoveled the snow? They cop should have just drove off and said have a nice day and left them alone... no matter if it was 2:00 in the afternoon or 8:00 at night. Obviously, the person paying them to shovel their driveway at that time needed the service and didn't have a problem.

I'm sorry, but is NO EXCUSE for a cop to tell teenage boys to get from outside and go home because of snow. Are you kidding me? You really going to defend cops enforcing some unwritten law about staying indoors during snowy days?
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If you weren't such a child, you'd actually admit you were wrong and took only the parts of that article that would inflame the situation.
 
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Seattle police pepper sprayed a teacher who was walking and talking to his mom

A Seattle-area high school teacher who was pepper-sprayed by police at a rally on Martin Luther King Jr. day has filed an intent to sue the city and its police force for $500,000.

Jesse Hagopian, a well-known social justice advocate who teaches at Garfield High School, a public school in Seattle, Washington, filed the notice of tort claim against the City of Seattle and the Seattle Police Department over the incident, which was captured on camera and shared on YouTube this week.
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Good thing there was a camera...
 
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'She was only a baby': last charge dropped in police raid that killed sleeping Detroit child

On 16 May 2010, Aiyana was shot dead by Weekley in the middle of the night, as she slept on a sofa inside her home on the east side of Detroit. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by.

The home was the target of a midnight Swat-style operation designed to arrest her uncle – who was living in the apartment upstairs and was the main suspect in the murder of a teenager a couple of days before. Weekley was the first officer to enter the home, seconds after a flashbang grenade – a war device created by the British SAS in the 1960s to disorient with a blinding flash and a temporarily deafening noise – was lobbed into it.

Outside, a reality television crew filmed the events for A&E.

Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyana’s blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. It went straight through the child’s head. Weekley said it was an accident and accused Jones of wrestling with his gun immediately as he entered the abode, causing the fatal shot.

Jones was arrested, and though she was quickly released it was not before she and two other family members – Aiyana’s parents – had been forced to sit in their child’s blood for hours, Scott said.
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Hooray for no-knock raids and accountability!

In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. Chauncey Owens, the uncle wanted on murder charges, was said to be going in and out of the house as normal and could have been apprehended during the day. The presence of children in the house was known.

There is speculation that the attending television crew may have increased the incentive for a glamorised, military-style operation.

Dante Barry, a 26-year-old organizer and executive director of the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, said the outcome of the case was “disappointing but not surprising”.
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Grand Vol said:
If you weren't such a child, you'd actually admit you were wrong and took only the parts of that article that would inflame the situation.
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Let me get this straight... the police approached 2 teenaged boys, asked them what they were doing and told them to go home and come back the next day because conditions were too dangerous for them to be shoveling snow.

Thats pretty much the story, right? :crazy:

And you're ok with this?
 
#3,691
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tim said:
Who would've been outside looking for their little asses had they succumbed to the cold? Momma and daddy would've called the police.. The police and other emergency personnel would've risked their lives for theirs. Yeah, sometimes people cross those creeks in floods, even though there's multiple warnings not to.. Who goes to their rescue? I cannot figure out why this is so hard to understand.. Furthermore, I am pissed that I have allowed myself back into this abyss of silliness.
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How often do you tell people to go home during a heavy thunderstorm?

Nevermind, don't answer that.
 
#3,692
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Let me get this straight... the police approached 2 teenaged boys after getting a suspicious person call, asked them what they were doing which they were entirely forthcoming and told them to go home and come back the next day because conditions were too dangerous for them to be shoveling snow right then since the forecasters were saying it was a potentially very dangerous storm and had been saying that for days.

Thats pretty much the story, right? :crazy:

And you're ok with this?
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It tends to help when you add in the critical info. Excusing the run on sentence though.
 
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Still one of the best memes

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Rasputin_Vol said:
Let me get this straight... the police approached 2 teenaged boys, asked them what they were doing and told them to go home and come back the next day because conditions were too dangerous for them to be shoveling snow.

Thats pretty much the story, right? :crazy:

And you're ok with this?
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They were anticipating several feet of snow and white out conditions....why do you refuse to consider the circumstances?
 
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Carl Pickens said:
They were anticipating several feet of snow and white out conditions....why do you refuse to consider the circumstances?
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If they were anticipating several feet, then that meant that it hadnt snowed enough yet to justify the cop from stopping them on that particular day or to advise them to come back the next day.
 
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