To Protect and to Serve II

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Not sure about this one. I can understand a father being protective, but there is a line. There is a possible precedent in the case (though a different state) where the Texas father found the guy molesting his daughter and shot him.

Arizona father beats, kills man who followed his daughter into bathroom stall, police say

An Arizona father decided to “take care of a situation” his own way when he killed a man who attempted to enter a bathroom stall his daughter was in, police said.

Melvin Harris III faces a second-degree murder charge in the beating death of Leon Leevon Armstrong, AZFamily.com reported on Tuesday. Harris was taken into custody earlier this month after the deadly encounter at a QuikTrip convenience store in Phoenix involving his 16-year-old daughter.

She then identified Armstrong as the alleged harasser when she spotted him walking out of the store.

Possibly thinking not enough was being done, Harris approached the security guard and told him to “take care of the situation, or he would do it himself.” The guard said the incident was being handled.

The protective father, however, confronted Armstrong about the incident and then attacked him, authorities said. Witnesses told police Harris repeatedly stomped, punched and kicked the man.
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
Wait for it....


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"There was no anger, there was no malice in this," Etheridge said. "In my opinion, it was the lowest use of force we could have used to simply stop that threat at the time. And I know everyone is going to say, 'An 87-year-old woman? How big a threat can she be?' She still had a knife."
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If an 87 year old woman with a knife and dandelions is considered to be a threat, these guys need to find a different line of work.

Etheridge said the body camera footage will not be released because criminal charges against Al-Bishara are pending.
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Even if charges are dropped, they still need to release the video.

Al-Bishara was charged with criminal trespass and obstruction of an officer, both misdemeanors. She was released on her own recognizance.
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Pathetic.
 
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"I smell weed and I think your friend has a gun..."

First off, reefer shouldn't be illegal and having a gun is a protected right under the 2A, so the assumption should be that everyone has a gun.

 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
Just vote harder lol

A sound spirit of legislation banishing all arbitrary and unnecessary restraint on individual action, shall leave us free to do whatever does not violate the equal rights of another." Thomas Jefferson
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Thanks

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Orangeslice13 said:
Did you watch the video?
Cigarette ash and “hey that other dude looks like the kinda guy who’d have a gun” is probable cause?

Yes. I’d have to agree with you.
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Yep, I watched it. Notice how the cops didn’t even stop at the stop signs, yet, had the gall to pull these guys over. Did anyone hear what they were actually pulled over for?
 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
Yep, I watched it. Notice how the cops didn’t even stop at the stop signs, yet, had the gall to pull these guys over. Did anyone hear what they were actually pulled over for?
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I usually try to stay away from BLM talking points, but in this particular case, the only thing I can come up with is "driving while black". The "probable cause" they were trying to use only manifested itself AFTER they were pulled over (smelling weed, seeing shakes, the passenger allegedly sitting like he has a gun), unless they were able to draw probable cause and smell weed or see shakes while driving behind them.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I usually try to stay away from BLM talking points, but in this particular case, the only thing I can come up with is "driving while black". The "probable cause" they were trying to use only manifested itself AFTER they were pulled over (smelling weed, seeing shakes, the passenger allegedly sitting like he has a gun), unless they were able to draw probable cause and smell weed or see shakes while driving behind them.
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I certainly didn’t see any traffic infractions.
 
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Why did this particular video become public? Hopefully the guy that got pulled over filed a complaint is the reason. This kind of BS stuff happens all over the country every day. It happened to me when I was young because I didn't fully stop at a stop sign or I had a license plate bulb out. The police's #1 job shouldn't be to intimidate and harass people that they think they can.
 
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VolStrom said:
Why did this particular video become public? Hopefully the guy that got pulled over filed a complaint is the reason. This kind of BS stuff happens all over the country every day. It happened to me when I was young because I didn't fully stop at a stop sign or I had a license plate bulb out. The police's #1 job shouldn't be to intimidate and harass people that they think they can.
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As long as you still have a group of people out here that are satisfied with the law enforcement practices and training we have right now, it will be an uphill battle.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
As long as you still have a group of people out here that are satisfied with the law enforcement practices and training we have right now, it will be an uphill battle.
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I'm not anti law enforcement, I just don't understand why a lot of LEO's need to be dick's.
I can understand how it's a hard job dealing with the trash of society, but they seem to forget that some of the people they pull over are just trying to get home after a long day at work.
 
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k-town_king said:
That video has happened to me at least 40-50 times. It's part of being black in America.
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Are you sure? Because in the NFL thread there's a lot of white dudes who've never had this experience and say that being mad at cops for social injustice is unwarranted.

Surely their anecdotal opinions are more accurate than you first-hand experience, so again - are you sure?
 
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